The Federal Government has implemented far-reaching amendments to Australia’s workplace relations laws since its election, posing significant new challenges and compliance requirements for industry.

With almost all of these amendments now in force, Ai Group is running a series of interactive workshops around Australia providing practical guidance to equip organisations to navigate key elements of these changes.

The sessions will focus on ensuring employers are able to manage and achieve compliance with new rules relating to matters including:

• Changes to casual employment – restrictions on who can be a can be a casual and the new requirements relating to casual conversion as well as the issuing of the casual information statement
• The ‘Right to Disconnect’ & the additional requirements of the recently implemented modern award term dealing with this right
• Regulated labour hire arrangements orders – implications for those that use labour hire and labour hire providers
• Changes to the obligations and risks for employers relating to employee requests for flexible working arrangements
• The new test for who is an ‘employee’ as opposed to an independent contractor, and how to mitigate the risks arising from changes to the prohibition on ‘sham contracting’
• Limitations on the use of fixed term contracts

The workshops will also provide an opportunity for organisations to share their perspectives and practical challenges related to the implementation of the above regulatory requirements.

This program has been funded by the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations through the Productivity, Education and Training Fund grant program.