When can a mandatory code of practice be made?
22 When can a mandatory code of practice be made?
The Minister may make a mandatory code of practice for the purpose of ensuring that outworkers receive their lawful entitlements.
In particular, the Minister may make the code if he or she considers—
that current voluntary self-regulatory mechanisms are inadequate to achieve improvements in the level of compliance with obligations to ensure that outworkers receive their lawful entitlements; or
that persons engaged in the clothing industry are not attempting in good faith to negotiate improvements or extensions to those voluntary self-regulatory mechanisms.
The Minister may make the code only after considering a report of the Council under section 20 (report on implementation of ethical outwork practices).
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