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8 May 2019
Insight
Australia
Having difficulty cutting across the campaigning to focus on the actual policies of each party? Herbert Smith Freehills have prepared and continually updated a broad summary of the proposed industrial relations reforms publicly announced by the Liberal Party and the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
The policies deal with areas such as:
- Bargaining and industrial action
- Dispute resolution
- Right of entry
- Wages and gender pay
- Modern awards
- Types of employment
- National employment standards and paid parental leave
- Transfer of business
- Labour hire
- General protections, bullying, discrimination and unfair dismissal
- Sham contracting, underpayments and accessorial liability
- Superannuation
- Regulators
- Gig economy
- Temporary workers
- Registered organisations
- Whistleblowing
- Privacy
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