Is Your Business Likely to Be Impacted By Recent Legislation?
Some amendments to The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 were passed last week by the Senate and the House of Representatives.
You will need to consider which of these changes (if any) will impact on your business:
- Small business redundancy exemption
- Labour hire
- Union delegate rights for employees
- Anti-discrimination measures
- Criminalisation of underpayments
- WHS measures
Some Changes to Take Effect Shortly
The changes bring in some of the reforms that have been widely publicised while other reforms will be debated in 2024.
A summary of the reforms that have been passed appears below
Changes that have passed
- Small business redundancy exemption will no longer apply
- Labour hire
- Union delegate rights for employees
- Anti-discrimination measures
- Criminalisation of underpayments
Changes that will remain in the Bill
- Casual employment
- Enterprise agreements (EAs):
- franchisees’ access to single-EAs bargaining transitioning from multi-EAs.
- model terms for EAs
- new bargaining arbitration provisions restricting FWC ability to arbitrate on merit in intractable bargaining disputes.
- Union delegate rights for independent contractors
- Sham arrangements
- Right of entry
- Civil penalties
- Compliance notices
- Withdrawal from registered organisations amalgamations
- Definition of employment
- Employee-like
- Road transport
When do the changes take effect?
Don’t tackle workforce changes on your own
Some of these changes come into effect before Christmas.
As a small business owner ourselves, Akyra fully appreciates you have a business to run and these changes and their compliance can be problematic.
The impacts on business is where Akyra specialises, so if you have a query, please touch base for an obligation-free conversation about your particular concern in the human resource and people management space – our HR Consultants are available at connect@akyra.com.au or on 07 3204 8430.
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