General Manager’s section 653 Fair Work Act reports published

The reports for 2021-2024 have been tabled in the Senate and are now available.

Every 3 years the General Manager of the Fair Work Commission is required, under section 653 of the Fair Work Act 2009, to:

• review the developments in making enterprise agreements in Australia
• conduct research into the extent to which individual flexibility arrangements (IFAs) under modern awards and enterprise agreements are being agreed to, and the content of those arrangements, and
• conduct research into the operation of the provisions of the National Employment Standards (NES) relating to employee requests for flexible working arrangements and extensions to unpaid parental leave.

Reports covering the 2021-2024 reporting period have been tabled in the Senate today and can be accessed on the General Manager reports page.