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AHRC releases "positive duty" guidance for employers

Employers can comply with the new "positive duty" to eliminate sexual harassment and sex discrimination by fostering a respectful culture, ensuring workers have avenues to report incidents, and taking a "risk-based" approach to prevention, according to Human Rights Commission guidance.

New adverse action protections for FDV survivors: Burke

The Albanese Government's third tranche of IR reforms will include a new protections for domestic violence victim-survivors against workplace discrimination, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke revealed this evening.

ILO working age, harassment conventions ratified

The Albanese Government has ratified ILO conventions setting a minimum working age and seeking to prevent workplace harassment and violence, with Skills and Training Minister Brendan O'Connor telling this year's international labour conference that tripartism "has never been so important".


Commission prepares ground for new expert panels

FWC Deputy President Bernadette O'Neill will oversee the new system of expert panels for pay equity and the care and community sector, the tribunal's acting president announced today.

Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act receives Royal Assent

The Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act has received Royal Assent, stamping out pay secrecy clauses in new employment contracts, paring back MSD requirements and making it harder for employers to terminate agreements during bargaining, while the ABCC has entered a transition period ahead of its abolition.

Progress on harassment, but results lagging: Jenkins

The Human Rights Commission's latest survey of workplace sexual harassment shows little change in incidence over the past four years, while only two-thirds of workers reported their employer had anti-harassment policies and just one third had received training, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins told the National Press Club yesterday in a speech that also marked the first anniversary of her "Set the Standard" report on federal parliamentary workplaces.

Respect@Work Bill passes Parliament

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has highlighted the positive duty imposed on employers to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate sex discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation under its Respect@Work legislation, which passed Parliament this afternoon.

Government jettisons costs provisions from Respect Bill

The Albanese Government had dropped contentious "cost neutrality" provisions from its Respect@Work Bill and will refer the matter to the Attorney-General's Department, which will conduct a review.

University applauds shift of approach on harassment

Australia's largest tertiary education sector employer has commended the regulatory inclusion of s-xual harassment among instances of serious misconduct as having produced a "nuanced" shift wherein the emphasis is no longer on why perpetrators should be dismissed, but rather on why they "should not" be sacked.