Fair Work Commission

Fact sheets & guides

General

• About awards (PDF)
• About dispute resolution (PDF)
• About hearings & conferences (PDF)
• About industrial action (PDF)
• Annual wage reviews (PDF)
• Applying for a take-home pay order
• Disputes under awards & agreements (PDF)
• Making a single-enterprise agreement: step by step guide (PDF)
• Our role (PDF)
• Protected action ballots (PDF)
• Statutory declarations

Unfair dismissal

• Unfair dismissal online guide
• Guide 1 Overview of unfair dismissal laws (PDF)
• Guide 2 Flowchart of the process (PDF)
• Guide 3 Making an application (PDF)
• Guide 4 Responding to an application (PDF)
• Guide 5 Objecting to an application (PDF)
• Guide 6 Preparing for a conciliation (PDF)
• Guide 7 Preparing for a conference or hearing (PDF)
• Guide 8 Frequently asked questions (PDF)
• Guide 9 Glossary of common terms (PDF)
• Sample form F2 (PDF)
• Sample form F3 (PDF)
• Non compliance with unfair dismissal orders (PDF)

Anti-bullying

• Guide: Anti-bullying (PDF)
• Flowchart of the anti-bullying process (PDF)

Modern awards

• Modern awards fact sheets
  • Annual leave in advance
  • Cashing out of annual leave
  • EFT payment of annual leave
  • Excessive annual leave accruals

Registered organisations

There is a range of fact sheets, templates and webinars relating to registered organisations are also available on this website.

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• Registered organisations fact sheets, templates and webinars

Fact sheets in other languages

Some of our fact sheets and guides are available translated into Arabic, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Greek, Indonesian, Spanish and Vietnamese.

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• Fact sheets in other languages – by language
• Fact sheets in other languages – by fact sheet

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