Industrial relations and employment regulation have been centre stage recently, with the Federal Government’s Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 (Cth) (Secure Jobs Bill) set to pass Parliament after weeks of crossbench negotiations. Our recent coverage of this Bill is available here, with our update on the Bill’s proposed amendments here.

With this area of regulation in sharp focus, we look beyond the Secure Jobs Bill to bring together some of the current key employment law topics relevant to organisations across Australia’s food and agriculture sector now.

Respect@Work changes: A new approach to sexual harassment in the workplace

• In March 2020, the Respect@Work Report was released following a landmark national inquiry into workplace sexual harassment. The Report made 55 recommendations, having identified that sexual harassment is “prevalent and pervasive” in Australian workplaces, and that the related legal framework is outdated and difficult to navigate.
• The former Coalition government legislated several Report recommendations (see our article here). More recently, the Federal government has committed to fully implementing all 55 recommendations, with a new Bill to address several of them passing federal Parliament on 28 November 2022 (see our coverage here and here, with our latest post on the Bill’s passage here).
• Among other things, the new Bill will implement one of the Report’s key recommendations: creating a positive duty on...

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