This April 2024 edition of the Significant Workplace Relations Issues Report provides Ai Group members with an update on a range of major matters, including the following:
- The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No.2) Act 2024, which received Royal Assent on 26 February 2024.
- Major Fair Work Commission proceedings relating to the new Award Review, Annual Wage Review, several proposals to vary individual modern awards and other matters of relevance to members (including the setting of delegates' rights and right to disconnect terms in awards).
- Trends in enterprise bargaining.
- Several inquiries and proposed/recent legislative developments into matters related to modern slavery, anti-discrimination laws, privacy, religious discrimination, competition – restraints of trade, the net zero economy, medicinal cannabis and artificial intelligence.
- Updates on regulator activity, including that of SafeWork NSW, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, the Fair Work Ombudsman and the Fair Work Commission.
- Insights and updates concerning into major developments, including in relation to the Black Coal Long Service Leave Scheme.
Read about all this and more in our latest report on significant workplace relations issues.
