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Workplace relations update | 5 May 2023
05 May 2023
Workplace Relations Reference Groups
The Workplace Policy Committee approved the establishment of two new reference groups, or sub-committees on March 29: a WR Advocacy Reference Group and a WR Legal and Practical Guidance Technical Reference Group.
ACCI circulated draft Terms of Reference for the Workplace Policy Committee’s approval and sought feedback from members.
ACCI is still seeking nominations from members for participation in each reference group. Nominations are due by COB Friday, May 12.
For the WR Advocacy Reference Group, ACCI seeks representatives with experience and responsibility for advocacy, communications and/or campaigning in addition to, or instead of, technical WR Policy expertise.
For the WR Legal and Practical Guidance Technical Reference Group, representatives should have legal expertise, technical workplace relations knowledge and/or authority to engage external legal advisers.
Participation in the reference groups is not restricted to members of the Workplace Policy Committee. Members with nominations are encouraged to contact ACCI’s Director of Workplace Relations, Jessica Tinsley.
Paid Parental Leave Inquiry — Small Business Survey
As part of negotiations surrounding changes to the paid parental leave scheme made by the federal government in March, Senator David Pocock secured a commitment for a parliamentary inquiry into the role of small business employers in the administration of the Commonwealth scheme.
This inquiry will inform policy making ahead of a second tranche of paid parental leave changes coming before the parliament later this year.
To boost ACCI’s submission to the inquiry, ACCI is looking to collect evidence to support an amendment to the Paid Parental Leave Scheme legislation which would remove the requirement for small business employers to administer the scheme directly to eligible employees, leaving it to Services Australia to administer payments to those employees directly.
Accordingly, a survey has been provided to members for wider circulation. It is accessible here.
Annual Wage Review 2022-23
ACCI has now submitted both its initial submission and its reply submission to the Annual Wage Review 2022-23.
ACCI will be participating in the hearings before the Expert Panel on May 17.
Workplace Relations Reforms — Consultation Papers
The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has released four consultation papers on proposed changes to the workplace relations system which the government will seek to introduce later this year:
- Same Job, Same Pay;
- Wage Theft;
- Extending the Powers of the Fair Work Commission to Include ‘Employee-Like’ Forms of Work; and
- Stronger Protections for Discrimination, Adverse Action and Harassment.
ACCI has held three Workplace Policy Committee meetings so far on the first three consultation papers and intends to hold a fourth on the final consultation paper on Tuesday, May 9.
ACCI thanks members for their participation in these meetings and welcomes any further input.
Submissions in response to the consultation papers are due on Friday, May 12.
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