In 2015 the Senate blocked the passage of a bill which would have restored the Building and Construction Commission. The agency was responsible for monitoring and promoting workplace relations in the building and construction industry. The ABCC provided education, investigated workplace complaints and enforced compliance with national workplace laws in the industry. The agency was abolished in 2012 after unions successfully lobbied the government to dismantle it.
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No; the initial purpose of reinstating the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) was to increase productivity within the industry, after it was first abolished in 2012. But, despite this, and during its years of reinstitution; 2016-2023, productivity levels actually began to decrease, coinciding with seemingly arbitrary policing, by the ABCC, that excessively targeted the presence and affiliation of trade unions, in the workplace. This abuse of power and unnecessary level of control, saw the ABCC as increasing political, detrimental to productivity, and a farce governing body. Though the ABCC had assumed a number of statutory roles, these responsibilities have each since been returned to the independent establishments that, prior to 2016, had previously fulfilled them, such as the Fair Work Ombudsman; the ABCC is redundant.
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