A Full Bench has finalised the right to disconnect modern award term. We will add the term into all 155 modern awards. The new right starts on 26 August 2024 for most employers. For employers who are small business employers on 26 August 2024, the right will start on 26 August 2025. We finalised the
The right to disconnect protects employees who refuse to monitor, read or respond to contact or attempted contact outside their working hours, unless their refusal is unreasonable. The right starts on 26 August 2024 for most employees. For employees of small businesses, it will start on 26 August 2025. We have published information about the
We are preparing for changes to our functions as a result of the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No. 2) Act 2024. Many of these changes start on 26 August 2024. Today we have published new information about changes to casual employment laws including: a downloadable Fact Sheet about casual employment laws, and updates
Justice Hatcher, President, has issued an end of financial year statement about our work and performance in 2023-24. The statement provides information about: Our operational performance over the 2023-24 reporting cycle Major cases Changes arising from the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act Changes arising from the Closing Loopholes Act Our implementation efforts in relation to
The Secure Jobs Better Pay Act (2022) made a number of significant changes to the enterprise bargaining and enterprise agreement approval processes. The changes also placed an increased focus on our role in facilitating bargaining. These changes commenced on 6 June 2023. In October 2023, we started a Bargaining Discovery Research Project to better understand
