Parliament's agenda

The House of Representatives is today due to start considering amendments to the Employment and Training Services Act that will facilitate re-deployment within the public sector which becomes necessary when state companies need to be restructured or reorganised.

The Bill provides that the Prime Minister may issue an order to authorise the redeployment of employees in state-owned companies to other state companies when the employees would otherwise become unemployed owing to redundancy.

Also on the agenda of the House are the Excise Duty (amendment) Bill, first reading; the Consumer Protection Laws (amendment) Bill, second reading; the Insurance Intermediaries Bill, second reading; the Human Blood and Transplants Bill, third reading and the Rome Convention on Contractual Obligations (Ratification) Bill, third reading.