Welcome to HR Brief

HR Brief tracks HR, industrial relations, employment law and recruitment-regulation change across Australia and New Zealand, every amendment, commencement and proposal moving through Commonwealth, state and territory law, plus New Zealand developments and notable case law.

Each week we cover all nine Australian jurisdictions, National (the Fair Work system, DEWR, the Federal Register of Legislation and more), NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT and NT, so you are not left checking nine different regulator and tribunal websites yourself.

What is in the weekly brief

The complete weekly rundown covers every jurisdiction, a "three to watch" summary of the week's most significant developments, New Zealand's equivalent employment and IR changes, a Recruitment & Migration section tracking skilled visa and labour hire regulation, and notable Case Law & Tribunal Decisions, each item sourced and linked back to the regulator, tribunal or court record it came from.

A recent taste of the format, three to watch from one week's brief:

• National, the Fair Work Commission's first-ever minimum standards order for on-demand delivery gig workers took effect, setting minimum pay from $31.30/hr for an estimated 250,000 workers on platforms including Uber Eats and DoorDash.
• New South Wales, a Full Bench of the NSW Industrial Relations Commission awarded public health nurses and midwives pay rises of up to 28 per cent, finding their work had been historically undervalued due to gendered assumptions.
• Victoria, the statutory right to work from home two days a week was delayed by ten months after business lobbying, though the government says the bill will still pass before the state election.

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