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COVID-19 Winter Update

With the relaxation of a number of remaining health measures and a shift away from government-prescribed responses, businesses must now manage COVID-19 as ongoing WHS and HR matters within their workplaces.

Activities & Achievements | January – March 2022

Overcoming Australia’s Labour and Skills Shortages, Through Skills Development, Workforce Participation and Migration | March 2022

The most pressing challenge facing business today is a shortage of skills and labour. With workplaces under enormous strain, it is placing a handbrake on economic growth.

Better Australia | Securing the foundations for a stronger and smarter future

Over most of the past two years Australia, along with the rest of the world, has battled a once in a century pandemic, presenting arguably the most challenging economic environment in more than a generation.

Small Business, Mental Health | Navigating the complex landscape

The management of mental health in the workplace is a complex area. While wanting to be supportive and do the right thing by employees’, businesses also need to manage legal risks including safety and health. There are also practical difficulties that come with managing employees who are genuinely not well, and who may not attend work or not respond to reasonable requests and directions.

Victorian Directions – Mandating COVID-19 Vaccination in the Workplace | Employer Guide

Helping employers navigate and understand the Victorian COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Directions.

Activities & Achievements | April – June 2021

Respect@Work | Employer Guide

An employer guide to help navigate the Respect@Work legislation changes.

COVID-19 Vaccinations and the Workplace | Employer Guide

Helping you and your business navigate the Australian COVID-19 vaccine rollout in an ever-changing landscape.

Payroll Tax: A handbrake on jobs & investment – Issues Paper July 2021

Activities & Achievements | January-March 2021

Reopening Australia | How to ease restrictions as the vaccine rolls out | Part 2: International Reopening

This document is part two of a two-part series on ‘Reopening Australia’. Part 2 focuses on international reopening. It follows the release of Reopening Australia, Part 1: Domestic Reopening and Living with COVID.

Reopening Australia | How to ease restrictions as the vaccine rolls out | Part 1: Domestic reopening and living with COVID

This document is part one of a two-part series on ‘Reopening Australia’. Part 1 focuses on domestic reopening and living with COVID-19.

Activities & Achievements | 2020

Activities & Achievements | October– December 2019

Activities & Achievements | July – September 2019

Migration in Regional Australia, Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Australian Chamber) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration’s Inquiry into Migration in Regional Australia. This submission does not set out to provide detailed commentary on all of the terms of reference, but will cover issues most relevant to the Australian Chamber membership. It is essential that we support migration policies that successfully meet regional skill and labour needs. This is about putting positive policies in place that support regional jobs growth, and encouraging migrants to fill job needs including the difficult to satisfy seasonal needs....

Submission into the Review of the Australian Apprenticeships National Skills Needs List

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Australian Chamber) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission in response to the issues paper on the Review of the Australian Apprenticeships National Skills Needs List (NSNL). Apprenticeship incentives play a critically important role in the system, and the purpose of incentives needs to be clearly understood. The NSNL review provides an opportunity for clarity and also to examine the relationship between skills shortages and apprenticeship incentives. This submission establishes a clear position that an assessment of skills in shortage should have no role in influencing the base apprenticeship incentives, as there are...

Submission into the New Skilled Regional Visas (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Australian Chamber) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the New Skilled Regional Visas (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2019 [Provisions]. This submission supports the proposed Bill. However, it does so in the context that there are some broader reservations about the decision to convert the employer-sponsored Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme into a provisional visa. We note that the Joint Standing Committee on Migration’s Inquiry into Migration in Regional Australia is relevant to this discussion. In that submission, we highlighted the barriers to...

Activities & Achievements | April – June 2019