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Background Today, the House of Representatives is expected to pass amendments to the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2021 (Bill) made in the Senate last Thursday night. What is changing? The only provisions left in the Bill after amendments following negotiation with the Senate cross-bench are those relating to casual … Read more
On 1 July 2019, the amended form of Part 9.4AAA of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Corporations Act), which sought to provide whistleblowers with greater protection than its predecessor, came into force. These amendments also repealed the specific whistleblowing protections in the Banking Act 1959 (Cth), Insurance Act 1973 (Cth), Life Insurance Act 1995 (Cth) … Read more
In our latest podcast, our Employment and IR team reviewed some of the interesting aspects in the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020, following its release last week. We discuss the media reaction to date, the union demerger proposal, the impact of the changes to casual employees, criminal sanctions for … Read more
Fair Work Act changes for the COVID recovery Following a gestation of seven months, the Workplace Relations Reform: Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 has finally reached the Federal Parliament. In the cold light of day, and relative to the size and scope of the matters considered by the working … Read more
We know that ‘Project Life Agreements’ have previously been pursued by industry as a remedy to this issue, and calls for reform were supported by the Federal Government. But will the IR Working Groups reach agreement? Will we see this as a feature of the soon to be announced reforms? In our sixth article in … Read more
In our fifth article in our Workplace change for the COVID recovery series, Michael Gonski, Partner and Rommo Pandit, Senior Associate from our Sydney office; discuss the challenges faced by employers in complying with a complicated system of Australian employment laws. There have been a number of recent examples of large Australian corporates disclosing that … Read more
In our latest article in our Workplace change for the COVID recovery series, Natalie Gaspar, Partner from our Melbourne office; investigates the anticipated changes to Australia’s enterprise bargaining system. It is anticipated that the reform package will contain measures which seek to streamline the approval process by giving primacy to the bargained outcome. A welcome … Read more
We’re delighted to have launched our Workplace Change for the Covid Recovery – Australian Industrial Relations Reforms series. Look forward to twice weekly additions to this site focusing on the practical impacts for business in the face of the proposed reforms. This week, Anthony Wood and Shivchand Jhinku consider progress in relation to the process … Read more
Programmed Industrial Maintenance Pty Ltd v The Construction Industry Long Service Leave Payments Board [2020] WAIRC 00758 In a decision that will likely have wide-ranging implications across Western Australia resources sector, a Full Bench of the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission (WAIRC) has found that employees performing maintenance and repair work at operational resource facilities … Read more
