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The new 2024/2025 edition of our annual Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia Legal Guide has been published, providing a comprehensive and practical overview of Australian employment, industrial relations and safety regulation.

This Legal Guide is intended as a reference tool for in-house counsel, line managers and HR professionals to obtain quick answers to the most common employment issues. We hope you find it useful.

New to this edition:

Closing Loopholes Reform

This edition is updated to reflect the changes in legislation resulting from the Closing Loopholes reforms.

Highlights from this edition include:

New chapters on wage theft and compliance, independent contractors, labour-hire, and gig economy and road transport workers – following the Closing Loopholes reforms

A summary on enterprise bargaining and responding to industrial action – helping you to achieve a strong industrial relations strategy, updated to reflect the Closing Loopholes reforms

Summaries of various ‘multi-factor’ tests – including for example the test to determine whether a worker is a ‘casual’, an ‘employee’, a ‘contractor’, or an ‘employee-like worker’

Overview of the Fair Work Commission’s expanded jurisdiction – which may include applications for ‘stop orders’ related to the Right to Disconnect or orders to ensure same pay for the same job

This Guide is a product of the strength of our firm’s national team of Employment, Industrial Relations and Safety lawyers.

Click on the Download button below to preview the contents of our 2024/2025 Employment and Workplace Relations Guide, and a summary which provides an overview of employment regulation in Australia.

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Obtaining a copy

If you would like to obtain a copy of the Guide, please complete the form.

Hard copies of the Guide are available to order for $129.95 per copy and include a complimentary electronic copy of the Guide. Orders of more than 5 copies will receive a 20% discount.

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