Australian EIRS webinar | Employment & IR Briefing Series: Closing Loopholes Bill: What it means for your business
Recently the Australian Federal Government tabled the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 (Cth) in the House of Representatives. The Bill proposes reforms that will have a substantial impact on employers, employees, principals, and contractors, and in many respects proposes even more significant changes than the Secure Jobs, Better Pay amending legislation from last year.
In this webinar a panel of our Australian Employment, IR and Safety partners dissect the Bill and discuss what these changes mean for employers. We covered the key changes being introduced in the Bill, including:
• Same job, same pay orders ("closing the labour hire loophole")
• Criminalising wage theft, underpayment penalties, compliance and enforcement
• Changes for road trasport contractors and gig economy participants, including new access to collective bargaining and minimum conditions
• Sham contracting arrangements
• Enterprise bargaining changes
• Strengthened protections against discrimination
In this webinar a panel of our Australian Employment, IR and Safety partners dissect the Bill and discuss what these changes mean for employers. We covered the key changes being introduced in the Bill, including:
• Same job, same pay orders ("closing the labour hire loophole")
• Criminalising wage theft, underpayment penalties, compliance and enforcement
• Changes for road trasport contractors and gig economy participants, including new access to collective bargaining and minimum conditions
• Sham contracting arrangements
• Enterprise bargaining changes
• Strengthened protections against discrimination