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Job loss or dismissal
Types of dismissal and termination
Unfair dismissal
About unfair dismissal
What is unfair dismissal?
Who the law protects from unfair dismissal
Check eligibility for unfair dismissal
The process for unfair dismissal claims
Apply for unfair dismissal (Form F2)
Check you are ready to apply for unfair dismissal
Respond to an unfair dismissal claim
What to do when an employee claims unfair dismissal
Respond to a claim for unfair dismissal (Form F3)
Help with Form F3 – Employer response to unfair dismissal
Object to an unfair dismissal claim
Reasons to object to an unfair dismissal claim
Object to an application for unfair dismissal remedy (Form F4)
Jurisdiction hearings in unfair dismissal cases
Conciliation for unfair dismissal
What is conciliation?
Tips to prepare for conciliation
What happens in a conciliation meeting
Options at conciliation for unfair dismissal
The role of the independent conciliator
Ask to delay a conciliation
Withdraw your application for unfair dismissal
Possible results of unfair dismissal claims
Compensation for unfair dismissal
The formula to calculate compensation
Reinstatement after unfair dismissal
Outcomes or remedies at an unfair dismissal hearing
Dismissal under general protections
About general protections
Understand general protections
Who the general protections laws cover
The difference between contractors and employees
Check eligibility for general protections
What is adverse action?
Prohibited reasons in general protections
Other workplace protections
The process for general protections dismissal
Apply for general protections – dismissal (Form F8)
Responding to a general protections claim
Response to general protections application (Form F8A)
Object to a general protections dismissal claim
Conferences for general protections dismissal
Tips to prepare for a general protections conference
Possible outcomes of a general protections – dismissal case
Apply for arbitration of a general protections – dismissal case (Form F8B)
Take your general protections case to court
Unlawful termination
Apply for help with unlawful termination (Form F9)
Respond to an application for unlawful termination (Form F9A)
Agree to arbitration for unlawful termination (Form F9B)
Redundancy
Issues we help with
Common issues in the workplace
Resolve a dispute in your workplace
Apply for help to promote cooperative workplaces and prevent disputes (Form F79)
Bullying
The process to resolve workplace bullying
What is bullying at work?
About reasonable management action
What to do if you’re bullied at work
How we help stop workplace bullying
Who can apply to stop bullying
Check eligibility for an order to stop bullying
Apply to stop workplace bullying at work (Form F72)
Respond to a bullying claim
Respond as an employer or principal in a bullying application (Form F73)
Respond as a person named in a bullying application (Form F74)
Conciliation for bullying at work
Prepare for a conciliation session
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment that occurred or started before 6 March 2023
What is sexual harassment at work
Who can apply for orders to stop sexual harassment at work
Discrimination, the general protections and work health and safety
What to do if you’re sexually harassed at work
Apply to stop sexual harassment at work
Respond to an application about sexual harassment at work
The Commission’s process to resolve sexual harassment at work
Conciliation about sexual harassment at work
Conferences and hearings about sexual harassment at work
Sexual harassment commencing from 6 March 2023
The prohibition on workplace sexual harassment
What is sexual harassment in connection with work?
Who can apply to us to deal with a sexual harassment dispute
Sexual harassment and discrimination, the general protections and work health and safety
What to do if you’re sexually harassed in connection with work
The process for sexual harassment dispute claims
How to apply to us to deal with a sexual harassment dispute
Apply to resolve a sexual harassment dispute (Form F75)
How to respond to a sexual harassment dispute application
Respond as an individual to an application to deal with a sexual harassment dispute (Form F76)
Respond as an employer or principal to an application to deal with a sexual harassment dispute (Form F77)
Member conferences and determinative hearings in sexual harassment disputes
Member conferences in sexual harassment disputes
Determinative conferences and hearings in sexual harassment disputes
Keeping the sexual harassment dispute case confidential
Sexual harassment disputes that are not resolved
Discrimination
Small business hub
Assistance for small business
What is a ‘small business’?
Types of workplace disputes
Respond to a claim against a business
Dismissal rules for small business owners
What we are doing to help small business
Casual to permanent status
Apply to resolve a dispute about casual conversion (Form F10A)
Dispute about an award or agreement
Apply to resolve a dispute about an award or agreement (Form F10)
Disputes about fixed term contracts
Flexible work and unpaid parental leave requests
Disputes about flexible work or unpaid parental leave extensions
Apply to resolve a dispute about extension of unpaid parental leave (Form F10B)
Apply to resolve a dispute about flexible working arrangements (Form F10C)
Disputes about general protections
Process for general protection disputes
Apply for general protections – no dismissal (Form F8C)
Responding to a general protections claim not involving dismissal
Industrial action
Organise a protected action ballot
Compulsory conciliation conferences during ballot period
Apply to hold a protected action ballot (Form F34)
Apply to extend the 30-day period for protected action (Form F34A)
Apply to become an eligible protected action ballot agent (Form F34C)
Eligible protected action ballot agents
Types of industrial action
Payments during industrial action
Ballot results
Apply to resolve a stand down dispute (Form F13)
Apply to stop unprotected industrial action (Form F14)
Collaborative Approaches Program
Interest-based approaches
Interest-based bargaining
Interest-based consultation
Interest-based problem-solving
Jobkeeper disputes
Apply to resolve a jobkeeper dispute (Form F13A)
Agreements & awards
Enterprise agreements
Changes to making agreements
Understand the tests that apply to agreements
About enterprise agreements
About single and multi-enterprise agreements
About greenfields agreements
Historical agreements and instruments
Statistical reports on enterprise agreements data
Find an enterprise agreement
Agreements in progress
Make an enterprise agreement
The process to make an agreement
Before you start bargaining
Genuine agreement from 6 June 2023
Statement of Principles on Genuine Agreement
Timeframes to make an agreement
Date calculator for single enterprise agreement
Plan to communicate your agreement
Bargaining representatives
Who can be a bargaining representative?
The role of representatives
Cancel a bargaining representative
Apply for a majority support determination (Form F30)
Request to bargain for a replacement agreement
Start bargaining
Scope orders for enterprise agreements
Apply for a scope order (Form F31)
Resolve a dispute about bargaining
Apply to resolve a bargaining dispute (Form F11)
Apply for a bargaining order (Form F32)
Apply for an intractable bargaining declaration (Form F33)
How to bargain in good faith
NERR – Notice of Employee Representational Rights
Create the NERR
Distribute the NERR to employees
Develop the agreement
Finalise the draft enterprise agreement
Guide to the BOOT
How we apply the Better Off Overall Test
Check an agreement can pass the BOOT
Terms and dates to put in an agreement
When employees genuinely agree to an agreement
Avoid common errors in agreements
Meet the terms in the NES
Sign an agreement the right way
Make sure your NERR is valid
Make 'loaded' rates clear
Explain what you did in the access period
Ways to pass the BOOT
Hold a vote on the agreement
Voting request orders
Explain the agreement to employees
What to give employees during the 'access period'
Voting process for agreements
Record how and when employees vote
Create a greenfields enterprise agreement
Apply to approve a greenfields agreement (Form F19)
Approval of enterprise agreements
The process to approve an agreement
Requirements an agreement must meet
About undertakings in agreements
How to write an undertaking
Agreement amendments
Approval timelines for agreements
Is your agreement application ready to lodge?
Forms for approval of agreements
Apply to approve a new enterprise agreement (Form F16)
Employer declaration for an enterprise agreement (Form F17)
Select your Form F17
Union declaration for an enterprise agreement (Form F18)
Employee rep declaration for an agreement (Form F18A)
Employer's declaration for a greenfields agreement under s.182(3) (Form F20)
Union declaration for a greenfields agreement (Form F21)
Apply to approve a new greenfields agreement made under s.182(4) (Form F21A)
Employer's declaration for a greenfields agreement under s.182(4) (Form F21B)
Union declaration for approval for a greenfields agreement under s.182(4) (Form F21C)
Reconsideration of approved agreements
Change a single enterprise agreement
Apply for approval to change an agreement (Form F23)
Employer's declaration to vary an agreement (Form F23A)
Select your Form F23A
Union declaration for variation of an enterprise agreement (Form F23B)
Apply to vary an agreement to resolve a casual conversion issue (Form F23C)
Apply to terminate an agreement after the nominal expiry date (Form F24B)
Terminate an enterprise agreement
Apply to terminate an enterprise agreement by agreement (Form F24)
Ways to terminate an individual agreement (IABTI)
Declaration to support the termination of an agreement (Form F24A)
Declaration to support the termination of an agreement after nominal expiry (Form F24C)
Declaration in response to application to terminate an agreement after the expiry date (Form F24D)
Sunsetting of pre-2010 agreements
Types of pre-2010 agreements
Our list of pre-2010 agreements
Check if you have a ‘zombie agreement’
What to do if you have a pre-2010 agreement
Extending the default period for a pre-2010 agreement
Apply to extend the default period for a zombie agreement (Form F81)
Awards
Find an award
Create or change an award
Applications to create or change an award
Apply to create, change or revoke an award (Form F46)
Modern awards pay database
Data dictionary
Modern Awards Pay Database API
What awards contain
The difference between awards and agreements
Awards research
Minimum wages and conditions
The national minimum wage
National minimum wage orders
National Employment Standards
Where to find your pay and conditions
Superannuation
Gender pay equity
Gender pay equity in the Fair Work Act
Equal remuneration orders
Gender pay equity research
Previous pay equity research
Apply for an equal remuneration order (Form F46A)
Hearings & decisions
Hearings schedule
Adelaide hearings
Brisbane hearings
Canberra hearings
Darwin hearings
Hobart hearings
Melbourne hearings
Perth hearings
Sydney hearings
Regional hearings
How the Commission works
What to do when we set your tribunal date
About conferences and hearings
Prepare for a conference or hearing
Possible outcomes of a hearing or conference
Timeframes for decisions
What happens during a hearing
Inside the hearing room
On the day of your conference or hearing
Recording a hearing or conference
Ask to delay a hearing or conference
Appeal a decision or order
The appeals process
Reasons you may appeal a decision or order
Who can appeal a decision?
How to appeal a decision
Order to ‘stay’ all or part of a decision
Create an appeal book
Prepare for an appeal hearing
Prepare an outline of submissions for an appeal
What happens in an appeal hearing
Who sits on an Appeal Bench?
Timetable of appeal hearings
Results of appeals
Apply for permission to appeal (Form F7)
Decisions and orders
National wage and safety net review decisions
Significant decisions and summaries
Major cases
4 yearly review
All decisions and statements
Alleged NES inconsistencies
Awards under review
Common issues
Abandonment of employment
Annual leave
Annualised salaries
Apprentice conditions
Award flexibility
Blood donor leave
Casual employment
Family and domestic violence leave
Family friendly work arrangements
Micro business schedule
National Training Wage
Overtime for casuals
Part-time employment
Payment of wages
Penalty rates case
Decisions & statements
General Retail Industry Award
Hair and Beauty Industry Award
Public holidays
Transitional provisions
Final stage proceedings
Plain language re-drafting
Fast Food Industry Award
Hair and Beauty Industry Award
Timetable
Annual wage reviews
Annual Wage Review 2022–23
Additional material for the Annual Wage Review 2022-23
Correspondence for the Annual Wage Review 2022–23
Decisions & statements for the Annual Wage Review 2022–23
Determinations for the Annual Wage Review 2022–23
Draft determinations for the Annual Wage Review 2022–23
National Minimum Wage Order 2023
Notices of listing for the Annual Wage Review 2022–23
Research for the Annual Wage Review 2022–23
Statistical reporting for the Annual Wage Review 2022–23
Submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2022–23
Timetable for the Annual Wage Review 2022–23
Transcripts for the Annual Wage Review 2022–23
Annual Wage Review 2021–22
Additional material for the Annual Wage Review 2021–22
Correspondence for the Annual Wage Review 2021–22
Decisions & statements for the Annual Wage Review 2021–22
Draft determinations for the Annual Wage Review 2021–22
National Minimum Wage Order 2022
Notices of listing for the Annual Wage Review 2021–22
Research for the Annual Wage Review 2021–22
Statistical reporting for the Annual Wage Review 2021–22
Submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2021–22
Timetable for the Annual Wage Review 2021–22
Transcripts for the Annual Wage Review 2021–22
Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Additional material for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Consultations for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Correspondence for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Decisions & statements for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Determinations for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Draft determinations for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
National Minimum Wage Order 2021
Notices of listing for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Research for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Statistical reporting for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Initial submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Post-budget submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Submissions in reply for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Supplementary submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Timetable for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Transcripts for the Annual Wage Review 2020–21
Annual Wage Review 2019–20
Additional material for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Consultations for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Correspondence for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Decisions & statements for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Determinations for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Junior & apprentice rates in modern awards for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
National Minimum Wage Order 2020
Notices of listing for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Research for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Research proposals for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Statistical reporting for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Initial submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Submissions in reply for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Supplementary submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Timetable for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Transcripts for the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
Annual Wage Review 2018–19
Additional material for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Consultations for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Correspondence for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Decisions & statements for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Determinations for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
National Minimum Wage Order 2019
Notices of listing for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Research for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Statistical reporting for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Initial submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Submissions in reply for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Timetable for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Transcripts for the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
Annual wage reviews archive
Annual Wage Review 2012–13
Modern Awards Review 2023–24
Proposed On Demand Delivery Services Award (Menulog)
Review of certain C14 rates in modern awards
Superannuation fund reviews
Termination of remaining modernisable instruments
United Firefighters' Union of Australia – intractable bargaining declaration
Work value case – Aged Care Industry
Correspondence
Decisions & statements
Notices of listing & directions
Research and information
Submissions
Transcript
Previous major cases
Apple Retail Enterprise Agreement 2014 – application to terminate
Award flexibility – Hospitality and retail sectors
Application to vary the Hospitality Award
Application to vary the Restaurant Award
Application to vary the Retail Award
Background material
Correspondence
Decisions and statements
Notices of listing and directions
Research and data
Submissions
Transcript
Ballot for withdrawal of ME Division from CFMMEU (D2021/2)
Ballot for withdrawal of ME Division from CFMMEU (D2022/10)
Ballot for withdrawal of Manufacturing Division from CFMMEU
Cambridge Clothing Company Enterprise Agreement (2014) – application to terminate
Casual terms award review 2021
Background material
Correspondence
Decisions & statements
Determinations
Notices of listing & directions
Submissions
Transcripts
All documents
Clerks – Private Sector Award – Work from home case
Early education and care industry supported bargaining authorisation application
Equal Remuneration Case 2010-12
Applications
Correspondence
Decisions & statements
Draft orders
Exhibits
Notices of listing
Site inspections
Submissions
Timetable
Transcripts
Equal Remuneration and Work Value Case
Applications
Correspondence
Decisions and statements
Legislation
Notices of listing and directions
Orders
Papers
Submissions
Timetable
Transcript
Family and domestic violence leave review
Decisions & statements
Health sector awards – pandemic leave case
Applications
Correspondence
Decisions and statements
Determinations
Information notes and articles
Notices of listing and directions
Orders
Submissions and witness statements
Transcript
IEUA WA Branch – single interest employer authorisation
IPCA (VIC, ACT & NT) Agreement 2011 – Application to terminate
Independent Education Union of Australia WA Branch – single interest employer authorisation
Modern awards review 2012
Awards reviewed 2012
Svitzer Australia Pty Limited industrial action
Undergraduate qualifications review
Virgin Australia Regional Airlines – intractable bargaining declaration
Case law benchbooks
Enterprise agreements benchbook
Overview of benchbook
What is an enterprise agreement?
Single-enterprise agreement
Multi-enterprise agreement
Differences between single and multi-enterprise agreements
Greenfields agreement
Content of an enterprise agreement
Permitted matters
Coverage
Scope – who will be covered?
Terms & conditions of employment
Base rate of pay
Nominal expiry date
Mandatory terms
Flexibility term
Consultation term
Dispute settlement term
Optional terms
Terms that cannot be included
Terms that exclude the NES
Unlawful terms
Designated outworker terms
Agreement making process
Representation
Employees must be notified of their right to be represented
Bargaining representatives
Bargaining
Good faith bargaining
How long does bargaining take?
Voting
Voting process
Who can vote?
Timeframe for vote
Voting methods
When is an agreement made?
What happens if the parties cannot agree?
Making an application
Common defects & issues
National Employment Standards – common defects & issues
Better off overall test – common defects & issues
Mandatory terms – common defects & issues
Other terms of the agreement
Pre-approval requirements – common issues
Forms & lodgment – common defects & issues
Who must apply
Timeframe to apply – within 14 days
Material to accompany application
Signing an agreement
Employer must notify employees
Commission approval process
Genuine agreement
Minor procedural or technical errors
Where a scope order is in operation
Particular kinds of employees
Better off overall test (BOOT)
When an agreement passes
Classes of employees
Which award applies
Advice about coverage
Loaded rates of pay
Public interest test
Undertakings
Powers of the Commission
Associated applications
Majority support determinations
Authorisations to commence bargaining
Single interest employer authorisations
Ministerial declaration
Low-paid authorisations
Scope orders
Bargaining orders
Serious breach declarations
Disputes
Workplace determinations
Low-paid workplace determinations
Industrial action related workplace determinations
Bargaining related workplace determinations
Role of the Court
Appeals
Varying enterprise agreements
Varying by agreement
Ambiguity or uncertainty
Casual employee definition and casual conversion provisions
Discrimination
Terminating enterprise agreements
Terminating by agreement
After its nominal expiry date
Terminating individual agreements
General protections benchbook
Overview of benchbook
When is a person covered by the general protections?
What are the general protections?
How do the general protections work?
Rebuttable presumption as to reason or intent
Coverage for general protections
What is a constitutionally-covered entity?
What is a Territory or a Commonwealth place?
What is a trade and commerce employer?
What is a Territory employer?
What is a national system employer?
What if I am not covered by the general protections?
What is adverse action?
What is dismissal?
What is ‘injuring’ the employee in his or her employment?
What is altering the position of the employee to the employee’s prejudice?
What is discriminating between the employee and other employees of the employer?
Threatened action and organisation of action
Exclusions
Workplace rights – Division 3
Meaning of workplace right
Coercion
Undue influence or pressure
Misrepresentations
Requiring the use of COVIDSafe
Industrial activities – Division 4
What are industrial activities?
Coercion
Misrepresentations
Inducements – membership action
Other protections – Division 5
Discrimination
Race
Colour
Gender identity & sexual orientation
Age
Physical or mental disability
Marital status
Family or carer’s responsibilities
Pregnancy
Religion
Political opinion
National extraction
Social origin
Exceptions
Temporary absence – illness or injury
Bargaining services fees
Coverage by particular instruments
Coercion – allocation of duties to particular person
Sham arrangements – Division 6
Misrepresenting employment
Dismissing to engage as independent contractor
Misrepresentation to engage as independent contractor
Making an application
Dismissal applications
Timeframe for lodgment
Late lodgment
Non-dismissal applications
Other types of applications
Multiple actions relating to dismissal
Unfair dismissal
Unlawful termination
Court application (interim injunction)
Discrimination
Power to dismiss applications
Evidence
Commission process
Conferences & hearings
Dealing with different types of general protections disputes
Rescheduling or adjourning matters
Representation by lawyers and paid agents
Bias
Outcomes
Costs
When are costs ordered by the Commission?
Costs against representatives
Appeals
Role of the Court
Enforcement of Commission orders
Types of order made by the Court
Industrial action benchbook
What is industrial action?
Unprotected industrial action
Orders to stop or prevent unprotected industrial action
Protected industrial action
Immunity
Common requirements
Employee claim action
Employer response action
Employee response action
Pattern bargaining
Taking protected industrial action
Protected action ballots
Who may apply?
Making an application
Commission process
Varying a protected action ballot order
Revoking a protected action ballot order
Voting
Ballot agents
Who may vote – roll of voters
Ballot papers
Voting procedure
Scrutiny of the ballot
Results of the ballot
When is industrial action authorised?
Notice requirements
Commencing protected industrial action
Payments relating to industrial action
Partial work bans
Unprotected industrial action – payments
Standing down employees
Suspension or termination of protected industrial action
Powers of the Commission
When the Commission may suspend or terminate
When the Commission must suspend or terminate
Threats to persons or the economy
Suspending industrial action
Requirements relating to a period of suspension
Powers of the Minister
Enforcement
Appeals
Sexual harassment benchbook
Stop bullying benchbook
Unfair dismissals benchbook
Overview of unfair dismissal
Coverage for unfair dismissal
Who is protected from unfair dismissal?
People excluded from national unfair dismissal laws
Independent contractors
Labour hire workers
Vocational placements & volunteers
Public sector employment
Constitutional corporations
High income threshold
Modern award coverage
Application of an enterprise agreement
What is the minimum period of employment?
How do you calculate the minimum period of employment?
What is continuous service?
What is an excluded period?
Bankruptcy
Insolvency
What is dismissal?
When does a dismissal take effect?
Terminated at the employer's initiative
Forced resignation
Demotion
Contract for a specified period of time
Contract for a specified task
Contract for a specified season
Training arrangement
What is a transfer of employment?
Periods of service as a casual employee
What is a genuine redundancy?
Job no longer required due to changes in operational requirements
Consultation obligations
Redeployment
What is the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code?
What makes a dismissal unfair?
Valid reason relating to capacity or conduct
Capacity
Conduct
Notification of reason for dismissal
Opportunity to respond
Unreasonable refusal of a support person
Warnings – unsatisfactory performance
Size of employer's enterprise & human resources specialists
Other relevant matters
Making an application
Application fee
Timeframe for lodgment
Extension of time for lodging an application
Who is the employer?
Multiple actions
Discontinuing an application
Objecting to an application
Commission process – conciliations, hearings and conferences
Conciliation
Hearings and conferences
Preparing for hearings and conferences
Representation by lawyers and paid agents
Rescheduling or adjourning matters
Bias
Remedies
Reinstatement
Order for reinstatement cannot be subject to conditions
Order to maintain continuity
Order to restore lost pay
Compensation
Calculating compensation
Instalments
Mitigation
Remuneration
Any other matters that the Commission considers relevant
Compensation cap
Dismissing an application
Evidence
Costs
Costs against representatives
Security for costs
Appeals
Staying decisions
Role of the Court
JobKeeper disputes benchbook
Introduction
Overview of the Coronavirus Economic Response provisions in the Fair Work Act
JobKeeper enabling directions – general information
Service & entitlement accrual while a JobKeeper enabling direction applies
When a JobKeeper enabling direction will have no effect
Stand downs that are not jobkeeper enabling stand downs
Employee requests for secondary employment, training and professional development during a jobkeeper enabling stand down
JobKeeper enabling stand down directions – employers currently entitled to jobkeeper payments
Directions about duties & location of work
Jobkeeper enabling directions – employers previously entitled to jobkeeper payments
Jobkeeper enabling stand down directions – employer previously entitled to jobkeeper payment for employee
Directions about duties & location of work – employer previously entitled to jobkeeper payment for employee
Termination of a jobkeeper enabling direction made by a legacy employer
Agreements about days or times of work
Agreements about days or times of work – employers currently entitled to jobkeeper payments
Agreements about days or times of work – employers previously entitled to jobkeeper payment for employee
Termination of an agreement about days or times of work
Employer payment obligations
Wage condition
Minimum payment guarantee
Hourly rate of pay guarantee
Agreements about annual leave
Protections
Jobkeeper disputes the Commission cannot assist with
Applications to deal with a dispute about the operation of Part 6-4C
Who can make an application
Responding to an application
Objecting to an application
Discontinuing an application
Commission process
General information
Conferences & hearings during the COVID-19 pandemic
Procedural issues
Evidence
Outcomes of Commission dispute resolution under Part 6-4C
Contravening an order of the Commission
Appeals
Role of the Court
Attachments
Attachment 5 – Jobkeeper provisions that continue to apply on or after 29 March 2021
References in the benchbooks
Vaccination related matters
Practice notes
Appeal proceedings
Discontinuing matters
Fair hearings
Lawyers & paid agents
Orders to attend & orders to produce
Requests to appear remotely
Unfair dismissal proceedings
Transcripts and recordings
Recent transcripts
Ceremonial sittings transcripts
Registered organisations
Entry permits
Find an entry permit
When an official can enter a workplace
Training that permit holders must complete
When to return an entry permit
About Fair Work entry permits
Who can hold a Fair Work Entry permit
How to apply for a Fair Work entry permit
Entry permit – photo and signature declaration (Form F42C)
Apply for a Fair Work entry permit (Form F42)
How we process Fair Work entry permit applications
Rules for a Fair Work entry notice
Rights and obligations of Fair Work entry permit holders
Apply for an affected member certificate (Form F45)
Apply to be exempt from providing an entry notice (Form F44)
About Work Health and Safety entry permits
Apply for a WHS entry permit (Form F42A)
Statutory declaration to support an application for a WHS entry permit (Form F42B)
Rules for a WHS entry notice
Rights and obligations of WHS permit holders
Disputes about entry to workplaces
Apply to resolve a right of entry dispute (Form F12)
What is a registered organisation
Object to joining an employee or employer association (Form F69)
Services for employer associations, unions and enterprise unions
Renew an objection to joining an employee or employer association (Form F70)
Find a registered organisation
Find a recognised state-registered association
Running a registered organisation
Rules for unions and employer associations
Change the rules of a union or employer association
Apply to change the name of a registered organisation (Form F67)
Apply to change the eligibility rules of a employer association or union (Form F68)
Application for leave to change name and to alter rules (Form F59)
Apply to change eligibility rules of a federal counterpart (Form F68A)
Apply to change 'other' rules of a registered organisation
Lodge an annual return in a registered organisation
Complete the annual return template
Elections
The election process
The AEC, voting methods and exemptions
Casual vacancies and insufficient nominations
Disqualification from holding office
Election offences
Our Election Alert Program
Notify us of changes in your organisation
Financial reporting
Financial reporting obligations
Financial reporting exemptions
The financial reporting process
The financial report requirements
Auditors and the audit report
How we assess financial reports
Registered auditors
Financial training
Mandatory financial training for officers
Find approved financial training
Approved financial training
Disclosure obligations
Statutory officer duties
Corrupting benefits and disclosure rules
Giving, receiving or soliciting cash and in kind payments
Giving, receiving or soliciting a corrupting benefit
Disclosure rules during enterprise bargaining
Loans, grants and donations statement
Tools and templates
Lodge documents with us
Manage registration
Become a registered union or employer association
Apply to register a union (Form F56)
Apply to register an employer association (Form F55)
Apply to register an enterprise union (Form F57)
Apply for recognition as an RSRA
Object to the registration of an association (Form F58)
Merge registered organisations
Ballot paper for proposed amalgamation (Form F64)
Ballot paper chosen by organisation for proposed amalgamation (Form F63)
Ballot paper chosen by organisation with alternative to proposed amalgamation (Form F65)
Ballot paper with alternative to proposed amalgamation (Form F66)
Cancelling an organisation's registration
Apply to cancel an organisation's registration (Form F62)
Application by an organisation to cancel an organisation's registration (Form F60)
Object to the cancellation of an organisation's registration (Form F61)
Regulatory education
Book a Governance to You visit
Compliance trends and updates
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Section 346
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2023C00348/Html/Volume_2#_Toc148790212
Protection (industrial activities)
