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Fair Work Act 2009
118Modern awards and enterprise agreements may provide for notice of termination by employees
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118 Modern awards and enterprise agreements may provide for notice of termination by employees
Subdivision B—Redundancy pay
119 Redundancy pay
120 Variation of redundancy pay for other employment or incapacity to pay
121 Exclusions from obligation to pay redundancy pay
122 Transfer of employment situations that affect the obligation to pay redundancy pay
Subdivision C—Limits on scope of this Division
123 Limits on scope of this Division
Division 12—Fair Work Ombudsman to prepare and publish statements
124 Fair Work Ombudsman to prepare and publish Fair Work Information Statement
125 Giving new employees the Fair Work Information Statement
125A Fair Work Ombudsman to prepare and publish Casual Employment Information Statement
125B Giving employees the Casual Employment Information Statement
Division 13—Miscellaneous
126 Modern awards and enterprise agreements may provide for school‑based apprentices and trainees to be paid loadings in lieu
127 Regulations about what modern awards and enterprise agreements can do
128 Relationship between National Employment Standards and agreements etc. permitted by this Part for award/agreement free employees
129 Regulations about what can be agreed to etc. in relation to award/agreement free employees
130 Restriction on taking or accruing leave or absence while receiving workers’ compensation
131 Relationship with other Commonwealth laws
Part 2‑3—Modern awards
132 Guide to this Part
133 Meanings of employee and employer
Division 2—Overarching provisions
134 The modern awards objective
135 Special provisions relating to modern award minimum wages
135A Special provisions relating to penalty rates and overtime rates
Division 3—Terms of modern awards
Subdivision A—Preliminary
136 What can be included in modern awards
137 Terms that contravene section 136 have no effect
138 Achieving the modern awards objective
Subdivision B—Terms that may be included in modern awards
139 Terms that may be included in modern awards—general
140 Outworker terms
141 Industry‑specific redundancy schemes
141A Terms permitting fixed term contracts
142 Incidental and machinery terms
Subdivision C—Terms that must be included in modern awards
143 Coverage terms of modern awards other than modern enterprise awards and State reference public sector modern awards
143A Coverage terms of modern enterprise awards
143B Coverage terms of State reference public sector modern awards
144 Flexibility terms
145 Effect of individual flexibility arrangement that does not meet requirements of flexibility term
145A Consultation about changes to rosters or hours of work
146 Terms about settling disputes
147 Ordinary hours of work
148 Base and full rates of pay for pieceworkers
149 Automatic variation of allowances
149B Term requiring avoidance of liability to pay superannuation guarantee charge
149C Default fund terms
149D Default fund term must provide for contributions to be made to certain funds
149E Workplace delegates’ rights
149F Right to disconnect
Subdivision D—Terms that must not be included in modern awards
150 Objectionable terms
151 Terms about payments and deductions for benefit of employer etc.
152 Terms about right of entry
153 Terms that are discriminatory
154 Terms that contain State‑based differences
155 Terms dealing with long service leave
Division 4A—4 yearly reviews of default fund terms of modern awards
Subdivision A—4 yearly reviews of default fund terms
156A 4 yearly reviews of default fund terms
Subdivision B—The first stage of the 4 yearly review
156B Making the Default Superannuation List
156C Applications to list a standard MySuper product
156D Submissions on applications to list a standard MySuper product
156E Determining applications to list a standard MySuper product
156F First stage criteria
Subdivision C—Second stage of the 4 yearly review
156G Review of the default fund term of modern awards
156H Default fund term must specify certain superannuation funds
156J Variation to comply with section 149D
156K Transitional authorisation for certain superannuation funds
Subdivision D—The Schedule of Approved Employer MySuper Products
156L The Schedule of Approved Employer MySuper Products
156M FWC to invite applications to include employer MySuper products on schedule
156N Making applications to include employer MySuper products on schedule
156P FWC to determine applications
156Q The first stage test
156R Submissions about the first stage test
156S The second stage test
156T Submissions about the second stage test
Subdivision E—Publishing documents under this Division