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Federal Budget Workplace Round-Up
With concerns about the increased cost of living and the record-low unemployment rates in Australia, the Morrison Government has announced a budget that …
Respect@Work: Australian Government consults on positive duty to prevent sexual harassment
With workplace harassment remaining high on the agenda, political commitment to sweeping reform is still unclearThe issue is likely to remain in the …
Take 2: What the Alp’s Agenda may mean for WA’s mining sector this time
Three years ago, before the last Federal election, we published an article about what the ALP’s agenda, which was lengthy, detailed and ambitious, might …
2022 Australian Federal Election and Workplace Reform
Another federal election campaign is almost upon us, with expectation for a 14 May poll date building. For industrial relations practitioners, this often …
Can you judge a relationship by its contract?
Australia's courts largely say yes in two employment disputes but context still matters.The principles deciding if a worker is an employee or independent …
Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia Legal Guide 2022
Everything employers need to know, including chapters on D&I, tackling harassment, global mobility and post-Covid policiesThe new 2022 edition of our …
Australia: The call to action on sex-based harassment and sexual harassment
Background A bill to amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) (SDA), the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) and the Australian Human Rights Commission …
Changing Australian workplaces for the Covid recovery
The Australian Government has made much of pledges to change the workplace to support post-Covid recovery. Can it deliver?Australian Industrial Relations …
Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia Guide 2021
The new edition of our annual Guide to Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia has been published, providing a comprehensive and practical …
Greenfields agreements – ‘project life agreements’?
The threat of unpredictable and escalating costs, and the risk of a major project being halted before completion by protected industrial action, plagues …
Deciphering the complex world of underpayment of wages: compliance and enforcement
There have been a number of recent examples of large Australian corporates disclosing that members of their workforce have been underpaid, demonstrating …
Award simplification – We’d like to do it, but we just can’t work out how
The Prime Minister in his address to the National Press Club on 26 May 2020 identified that the current industrial relations system was not …
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