Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 44608

Fair Work Agency

Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 28 April 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

Conservative — Stockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that enforcement powers for the Fair Work Agency are (a) proportionate and (b) equitable for (i) employees and (ii) businesses.

Answer

Justin Madders
The Fair Work Agency (FWA) will not change the obligations on businesses who should always have been paying their workers correctly. The FWA’s enforcement powers are largely natural evolutions of powers that existing bodies have. The FWA will take a balan...
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