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Industrial relations
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Employment obligations in the building industry
Industrial relations (IR) refers to the system of employment laws and rules that regulate the rights and obligations of employers and employees in the workplace.
What is the Fair Work Act?
The Australian industrial relations system is governed by the Fair Work Act 2009 (the FW Act). The Fair Work Act sets out a number of employment requirements that Australian businesses, including small businesses, need to ensure compliance with.
For example, the Fair Work Act regulates and provides for :
- 11 National Employment Standards for employment
- application of modern awards
- termination and redundancy
- operation of unions in the workplace
- enterprise agreements
- minimum wages.
What is the Fair Work Commission?
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) is the national workplace relations tribunal. It is an independent body with power to carry out a range of functions.
These include:
- making, changing and varying ‘award’ terms and conditions and the minimum wage
- approving enterprise bargaining agreements
- ruling on industrial disputes, such as unlawful strikes and pattern bargaining
- termination of employment matters, including unfair dismissal claims and other workplace matters.
Find out more, see Information for Employers on the Fair Work Act