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• Foreword
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Objectives
• 3. Definitions
• 4. Implementation and industry consultation
  • 4.1 Implementation
  • 4.2 Condition of tender
  • 4.3 Consultation
• 5. Roles
  • 5.1 Government agencies and other signatories’ responsibilities
  • 5.2 Service providers: contractors, subcontractors, agents, suppliers and employers
  • 5.3 Employer and industry associations
  • 5.4 Unions
• 6. Employment obligations and contract work
  • 6.1 Awards and legal obligations related to employment
  • 6.2 Occupational health and safety
  • 6.3 Contract work
  • 6.4 Employment of outworks
  • 6.5 Responsibilties of prime contractors
  • 6.6 Membership of registered organisations
  • 6.7 Dispute settlement
  • 6.8 Industrial impacts
• 7. Compliance
  • 7.1 Contractors, subcontractors, agents and suppliers
  • 7.2 Monitoring compliance
  • 7.3 Enforcement of laws relating to employment, occupational health, safety, workers’ compensation and rehabilitation
  • 7.4 Role of industry
• 8. Standard conditions of tender
• 9. Further information and assistance

Clothing textiles and footwear guidelines

Model documentation and clauses

Annual return pro forma (for government agencies, schools and voluntary signatories)

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6.3 Contract work

A contractor who proposes to complete work using subcontract arrangements, including the employment of outworkers by those to whom work is subcontracted, can only do so:

• with the knowledge and consent of the Principal
• on terms and conditions as favourable as those provided in the applicable Federal or Queensland award or other relevant employment law including but not limited to rates of pay, annual leave, long service leave, notice requirements and employer superannuation contributions, and
• on the basis that they will, as a minimum, meet all relevant obligations relating to contract work in the applicable Federal or Queensland award or legislation, eg Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Commonwealth) or Industrial Relations Act 1999 (Queensland). These obligations include, but are not limited to:
  - registration as a factory or workshop, where applicable
  - registration as an employer giving out work, where applicable
  - lodgement of periodic returns to the relevant Federal or Queensland Industrial Registrar or their equivalent in other jurisdictions, of employers and other parties to whom work is given
  - provision of work list returns to the relevant Federal or State Branch of the Textile Clothing and Foot wear Union of Australia
  - compliance with compulsory WorkCover insurance, including maintenance of up-to-date records on these matters and in relation to contract work or outwork. These records must be made available for inspection by persons authorised under either the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Commonwealth) or Industrial Relations Act 1999 (Queensland) and under the WorkCover Queensland Act 1996 or other relevant employment law; and
  
• on the basis that they will provide the Principal with a quarterly report of all records and work list returns required to be maintained under the applicable award or industrial legislation in relation to contract work and outwork.

Additionally, contractors and employers are to ensure that a copy of this Code is available to all parties in the contract chain: that is, subcontractors (including outworkers), agents, suppliers and outworkers.

Last updated May 31, 2005

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