- Queensland Parliament has passed laws to protect businesses and workers from the risk of CFMEU misconduct on Queensland construction sites.
- Labor voted against the laws, proving their old habits of choosing thuggery over Queenslanders' safety haven't changed.
- Crisafulli Government is delivering reforms to restore balance, ensure information is accessed appropriately, and put workplaces, not union power, first.
The Crisafulli Government has delivered new work safety laws to dismantle CFMEU-enabled bullying and intimidation on construction sites, despite Labor voting against the reforms and siding with the CFMEU over the safety of Queenslanders.
The Electrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 repeals Labor's reckless information sharing laws that exposed employers and workers to the real risk of union coercion, harassment and misuse of regulator powers.
Under Labor's information sharing laws, entry permit holders and health and safety representatives would hold powers to request from the Regulator enforcement and compliance information, such as improvement notices, prohibition notices and non-disturbance notices.
It comes just months after a landmark Commission of Inquiry into the militant CFMEU and Labor's protection racket commenced.
Despite overwhelming evidence of violence and intimidation exposed by the CFMEU Commission of Inquiry, Labor opposed the legislation, choosing to protect the CFMEU's interests rather than support laws that put safety, fairness and the rule of law first.
The new laws deliver another decisive step in the Crisafulli Government's zero tolerance approach to bullying, fear and intimidation in Queensland workplaces.
The Bill also strengthens electrical safety powers by relocating directions prohibiting unsafe electrical equipment from regulation into the Electrical Safety Act 2002, recognising the seriousness of those protections and ensuring Queenslanders are safeguarded from electrical risks.
Deputy Premier, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning Jarrod Bleijie said the vote made Labor's priorities crystal clear.
"These laws have now passed Parliament because the Crisafulli Government is serious about restoring safety and the rule of law on construction sites," Deputy Premier Bleijie said.
"Labor had the choice to support Queensland workers and small businesses, or to keep backing the CFMEU's culture of intimidation, violence and misogyny and they chose the CFMEU.
"Labor continues to run a protection racket for union thuggery, and their opposition to these reforms proves nothing has changed.
"It proves that if they were to form government again, they would roll out the red carpet for the CFMEU, just as they've proved they'd wind back Adult Crime, Adult Time laws.
"Labor's laws were reckless with virtually no safeguards – a gift to militant unions looking for new ways to bully and intimidate workers and businesses.
"The regulator exists to protect Queenslanders' safety, not to facilitate orchestrated campaigns of coercion against lawful workplaces.
"The Crisafulli Government's reforms restore balance, ensure information is accessed appropriately, and put workplaces, not union power, first.
"We said we would deliver change, and with the passage of these laws, that's exactly what we're doing."
