STATEMENT

Fair Work Act 2009
s.157—FWC may vary etc. modern awards if necessary to achieve modern awards objective

Family and domestic violence leave review 2021
(AM2021/55)

Family and domestic violence leave review 2021 – 4 yearly review of modern awards – leave to deal with family and domestic violence model term – Background Document 2 issues – questions for parties.

[1] On 11 March 2022, we issued a Statement 1 together with the following documents prepared by the Commission’s research section:

•  A Background Document (Background Document 1)

•  Information note—ACTU supplementary submission to the Family and Domestic Violence Leave Review

•  Information note—Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave by business size

[2] Parties were invited to respond to the questions set out in Background Document 1 in their written closing submissions to be filed in accordance with the Directions issued on 8 March 2022. 2

[3] Submissions were received from:

•  Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Australian Business Industrial and the New South Wales Business Chamber Ltd (ACCI)

•  Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) – Final submissions on evidence; Final submissions and Response to Background Document

•  Australian Industry Group (Ai Group)

•  Victorian Government

[4] The Commission’s research section has prepared the following documents that will be published with this statement:

•  Background Document 2

•  Information note—Initiatives to reduce family and domestic violence in Budget 2022–23

[5] Background Document 2 summarises the submissions received in accordance with the Directions and the answers to the questions posed in Background Document 1. Background Document 2 includes some additional questions for the parties.

[6] Parties should file their written responses to the questions in Background Document 2 by no later than 3pm on Thursday 7 April 2022.

[7] The Commission’s Research Reference List has also been updated to include the following:

•  Australian Government (2022), Budget Paper No. 2: Budget Measures, 29 March.

•  Australian Government (2022), Women’s Budget Statement 2022–23, 29 March.

•  Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network & Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (2022), Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network Data Report: Intimate partner violence homicides 2010–2018, Second Edition, Research report 03/2022, ANROWS.

•  Morgan A and Boxall H (2022), Economic insecurity and intimate partner violence in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, Research report, Issue 2, ANROWS, January.

[8] Parties can make submissions about these additions to the Research Reference List and about the Information Note on the Budget 2022-23 at the hearing on Friday 8 April 2022.

PRESIDENT

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 1   [2022] FWCFB 31.

 2   [2022] FWCFB 24.