The Federal Coalition has announced its much-awaited industrial
relations policy. Essentially, it proposes to maintain the
"Fair Work" industrial relations framework introduced by
the current Federal Government, but to make what it sees as
incremental improvements.
The Federal Coalition has stated that its proposed changes will
be introduced to Federal Parliament within three months of the
Federal Coalition taking power.
WHAT ARE THE FEDERAL COALITION'S MAJOR PROPOSAL'S
The Coalition has indicated that it intends to:
- generally retain the "Fair Work"
framework introduced by the current Labor Federal
Government, including the Fair Work Commission
("FWC");
- adopt some recommendations from the Fair Work Review
Panel report (see our earlier
article) which have not been adopted by the current Federal
Government. These recommendations include clarification on the
circumstances in which annual leave loading is payable on
termination of employment, encouraging
