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In 2023, Australia's labour force was 14.2 million, with 1.4 million trade union members, an average annual income of $72,753, 3.8% unemployment and 6.4% underemployment. [1] Australian labour law sets the rights of working people, the role of trade unions, and democracy at work, and the duties of employers, across the Commonwealth and in
The Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia, passed by the Rudd government to reform the industrial relations system of Australia. [1] [2] Replacing the Howard government's WorkChoices legislation, the Act established Fair Work Australia, later renamed the Fair Work Commission.
New South Wales v Commonwealth (also called the WorkChoices case) [1] is a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia, which held that the federal government's WorkChoices legislation [2] was a valid exercise of federal legislative power under the Constitution of Australia.
WorkChoices was the name given to changes made to the federal industrial relations laws in Australia by the Howard government in 2005, being amendments to the Workplace Relations Act 1996 by the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005, sometimes referred to as the Workplace Relations Amendment Act 2005, that came into effect on 27 March 2006.
The Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Act 2021 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia, which brought about considerable amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009. Prior to its passing, the legislation was considered to be the most significant industrial relations reform
The Fair Work Commission (FWC), until 2013 known as Fair Work Australia (FWA), [1] is the Australian industrial relations tribunal created by the Fair Work Act 2009 as part of the Rudd Government's reforms to industrial relations in Australia. [2] [3] Operations commenced on 1 July 2009.
The Workplace Relations Act 1996 was an Australian law regarding workplace conditions and rights passed by the Howard government after it came into power in 1996. It replaced the previous Labor Government's Industrial Relations Act 1988 and Industrial Relations Reform Act 1993, and commenced operation on 1 January 1997.
Prior to colonisation, the only systems of law to exist in Australia were the varied systems of customary law belonging to Indigenous Australians. Indigenous systems of law were deliberately ignored by the colonial legal system, and in the post-colonial era have only been recognised as legally important by Australian courts to a limited degree. [5]