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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 states. Under the Fair Work Act 2009 , the Fair Work Commission creates a national minimum wage and oversees National Employment Standards for fair hours, holidays, parental leave ...
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 .
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.
Because the changes under WorkChoices largely relied on the corporations power under the Australian Constitution, [1] the Standard did not apply to all Australian workers. . It applied to all employees in Victoria, the ACT, the Northern Territory, Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Island because they were already within the federal workplace relations syst
The introduction of the Modern Slavery Act 2018 [33] into Australian law was partly based upon concerns of slavery being evident in the agricultural sector. [34] Further to this, a landmark provisional ruling by the Fair Work Commission in November 2021 ruled that farm workers in Australia on piece rates must be paid a minimum wage of $25.41 an ...
Its legal institutions and traditions are substantially derived from that of the English legal system, which superseded Indigenous Australian customary law during colonisation. [1] Australia is a common-law jurisdiction, its court system having originated in the common law system of English law. The country's common law is the same across the ...
Australian Land Transport (Financial Assistance) Act 1985 1985 (No. 59) No Australian Law Reform Commission Act 1996 1996 (No. 37) Yes (as amended) Australian Law Reform Commission (Repeal, Transitional and Miscellaneous) Act 1996 1996 (No. 38) No Australian Maritime Safety Authority Act 1990 1990 (No. 78) Yes (as amended)
The history of the Australian Labor Party (federally spelt Labour prior to 1912) [1] has its origins in the Labour parties founded in the 1890s in the Australian colonies prior to federation. Labor tradition ascribes the founding of Queensland Labour to a meeting of striking pastoral workers under a ghost gum tree (the " Tree of Knowledge ") in ...