Employers will no longer have to reach a collective agreement during collective bargaining, under changes made to industrial relations laws, approved by Cabinet today. Minister of Labour Kate ...

A storm of controversy is brewing over the newly adopted National Industrial Relations Policy, NIRP, 2025 as organised labour and employers take sharply different positions on its intent and potential ...

The government set itself an ambitious end-of-year deadline to pass its “Secure Jobs, Better Pay” bill, a mammoth 249-page piece of legislation that Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke says will ...

UNIONS have welcomed a “new, grown-up era of industrial relations” after the government confirmed today that it will repeal the Tories’ minimum service legislation, which could have been used to ban ...

Yet somehow, the required industrial relations reform was nowhere to be seen in 2022. What the Prime Minister did deliver however, was the introduction of multi-employer bargaining. Multi-employer ...

Anthony Albanese has delivered on his Christmas promise to workers with contentious reforms that he says will get wages moving. The government’s industrial relations Bill returned to the lower house ...

Minister Agni Deo Singh says the reformed Bill will correct injustices and ensure workers and employers are protected under ...

The Master Builders Association has opposed Labor’s Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill, which will legislate the abolition of the Australian Building and Construction Commission. Master Builders deputy ...