This July 2024 edition of the Significant Workplace Relations Issues Report provides Ai Group members with an update on a range of major developments, including the following: 

• Key recent legislative developments, including the commencement of changes relating to the right of entry for permit holders, an extension to temporary exemptions for fixed term contracts and a new portable long service leave scheme for the community services sector in NSW.
• Major cases in the Fair Work Commission dealing with matters including the development of new ‘delegates’ rights term’ and ‘right to disconnect term’ for modern awards, potential gender-based undervaluation in various awards, the outcome of the Award Review and various other proceedings relating to individual awards.
• Trends in enterprise bargaining, the first single interest employer agreement and the first intractable bargaining workplace determination.
• Other major developments and cases dealing with matters including a significant fine for a franchisor in connection with franchisee record-keeping breaches, a determination that a disability worker was an employee and not a contractor in the context of a general protections application, the first arbitrated orders made by the FWC in relation to a flexible working arrangement dispute and the imposition of  a fine on an employer for failing to pay an HSR employee for performing duties.
• Various government inquiries and consultation processes concerning matters including digital transformation, workplace surveillance and medicinal cannabis.

Read about all this and more in our latest report on significant workplace relations issues.