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The Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019 introduced to the House of Representatives on 4 July passed the House at the end of the month and is now before the Senate. The Bill forms part of the Government’s broader agenda on industrial relations reform to increase the regulation of unions in the wake of the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption. The Bill was rejected by Parliament in 2017. However, after the much-publicised guilty plea by the Victorian Branch Secretary of the CFMMEU to harassing his wife via a carriage service, and his subsequent refusal to step down in the face of public and political pressure, the Government has reintroduced the Bill with renewed confidence. In its current form, the Bill includes the following amendments to the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 : extending the automatic disqualification regime which prohibits a person from acting as official of a registered organisation to...