Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has officially tabled the “Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023” which proposes to amend legislation including the Fair Work Act (FW Act) 2009. If passed in its current form, what has been proposed has the potential for significant and far-reaching impact

Industrial Relations Ministers across Australia have agreed to produce a model for uniform labour hire regulation, to be considered by the end of this year. Labour hire providers, being businesses that provide workers to another host business, may currently be required to hold a license in

Working from home arrangements are agreements between workers and their employers in which workers work from their own home, alone or with other household members present. Such arrangements may be temporary or permanent which generally provides the benefit of flexibility to the worker and/or the employer.

A matter before the Federal Circuit Court is set to test the provisions that prohibit pay secrecy. The applicant in the case was employed as a casual sales assistant in a Melbourne bookshop. The applicant has claimed her former employer stopped giving her shifts and dismissed

The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Act 2023 (the Act)received Royal Assent on 30 June 2023.  It contains a series of amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act) further to the changes from the Secure Jobs Better Pay Act, to provide stronger

On 2 June 2023, the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission handed down its annual wage decision, which is a yearly review of the National Minimum Wage order and minimum wages in modern awards. The Commission held that rates of pay under all modern awards

As outlined in our 29 November 2022 and 9 December 2022 Legal Alerts, changes to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) introduced prohibitions regarding pay secrecy clauses, and created new workplace rights to allow employees to disclose their remuneration and other conditions. Further significant changes concerning this right come into effect from 7 June 2023.

As outlined in our 15 February 2023 Legal Alert, an employer covered by a ‘zombie’ agreement must, before 7 June 2023, give employees covered by a ‘zombie’ agreement written notice advising: That the employee is covered by that agreement; and That the agreement will terminate unless an application

The Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Act 2023 (Closing the Gender Pay Gap Act) received Royal Assent on 11 April 2023, as a further step to implement a recommendation of the 2021 review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Cth) (WGE Act). The amendment follows the recent legislative

Construction Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union v BM Alliance Coal Operations Pty Ltd [2023] FCA 30 The Workpac employee, contracted to work at BHP’s Daunia Coal Mine (Mine), alleged that BHP took adverse action against him when it excluded him from the Mine because he had