Fair Entitlements Guarantee Act 2012

to provide for the Commonwealth to pay advances on account of unpaid employment entitlements of former employees of employers in cases where:

the employers are insolvent or bankrupt; and

the end of the employment of the former employees was connected with that insolvency or bankruptcy; and

the former employees cannot get payment of the entitlements from other sources; and

to allow the Commonwealth to recover the advances through the winding up or bankruptcy of the employers and from other payments the former employees receive for the entitlements.