This April 2025 edition of the Significant Workplace Relations Issues Report provides Ai Group members with an update on a range of major developments.

A brief podcast, in which Ai Group Head of Workplace Relations Policy, Brent Ferguson, discusses some of the key issues in the report, is available here.

This month's report, exclusive to Ai Group members, includes the following:

• Key recent legislative developments, including progress on the independent statutory review of the amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) introduced by the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022.
• Amendments to the Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW) relating to road transport contractors, ‘gig workers’ and the supply chains connected to the Road Transport Industry as well as legislative developments relating to portable long service leave for the community services sector and superannuation on government parental leave pay.
• Major cases in the Fair Work Commission including the Annual Wage Review 2024-25, new model dispute, consultation and flexibility clauses for enterprise agreements, the potential development of a working from home clause for the Clerks – Private Sector Award 2020 and TWU applications for minimum standards orders and a road transport contractual chain order.
• Trends in enterprise bargaining.
• Government consultations and announcements on restraint of trade, pay day superannuation and the Fair Entitlements Guarantee, reports relating to the digital transformation of the economy and the small claims procedure process for recovering underpayments and an update on the coal long service leave scheme.
• Other major developments and Fair Work Commission cases including variations to the first supported bargaining agreement in early childhood education and care, as well as decisions relating to pre-approval steps for new enterprise agreements and a request for a flexible working arrangement.
• The most recent developments regarding Respect@Work, including the passing of the Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Setting Gender Equality Targets) Bill 2024,  a new FWO investigation into sexual harassment, and the NSW Government's response to final report of the Modern Slavery Committee relating to the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (NSW).