Labour hire schemes may be Nationally ‘harmonised’
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: employers’ health and safety obligations
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.
Testing the new ‘pay secrecy’ provisions
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
Further protection for workers’ entitlements – the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Act 2023
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
Annual Wage Review
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
Reminder: Prohibiting Pay Secrecy
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.

