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We provide advice and assistance to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on labour issues that may arise in trade matters. Labour provisions feature in the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA).

The regulatory technology roadmap outlines a series of potential approaches to support innovation that assists businesses to better understand and comply with modern awards.

RegTech Award Compliance Strategic Working Group Charter endorsed by Members on 22 February 2022.

Expression of Interest (EOI) Form for Membership in the RegTech Award Compliance Strategic Working Group.

Agreement making in Australia under the Workplace Relations Act: 2007 to 2009

The Amendments to the Code of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 as tabled in Parliament on 13 October 2015.

Australia's pledge to the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour

This template is to provide comments in response to the questions set out in the Issues Paper for the Review of Work Health and Safety Regulatory Framework

This report was commissioned by the Department of Employment to support the development of the Deemed Diseases legislative instrument.

On Thursday 17 September 2020, the Attorney-General released a draft work health and safety (WHS) Code of Practice (draft code) to provide businesses and workers guidance on what they need to do to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 in the workpl

The Greenfields Agreements Review final report covers the operation of the first two years of the greenfields agreement making provisions made by the Fair Work Amendment Act 2015, which commenced on 27 November 2015. 

The Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020 temporarily introduced a new Part 6-4C into the Fair Work Act 2009. These were known as the JobKeeper provisions.

The document provides details on the greenfield agreements made over the past four years.

This booklet presents fact sheets on nine pilot projects undertaken by agencies that are in the Deputy Secretaries' Working Group for Managing Workers Compensation in the Commonwealth.  The pilots were designed to identify ways of improving i

People seeking access to the Workplace Agreements Database dataset must complete this form and return it via email to ebtrends@dewr.gov.au.

Discussion Paper and submission guide relating to the Review to Modernise The Office of The Federal Safety Commissioner and The Australian Government Building and Construction OHS Accreditation Scheme.

The final report of the Review of the Seacare scheme was publicly released on 20 May 2013. The report outlines 67 recommendations to modernise the scheme for seafarers to ensure it is working effectively and efficiently.

Mr Peter Hanks QC - the final report was publicly released on 30 March 2013.

Dr Allan Hawke AC - The report outlines 33 recommendations to improve the performance and operation of the scheme.

SEACARE Scheme Review Discussion Paper