Wins for union members
Since 2022
New rights for all workers
- 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave for everyone, including casuals
- the right to disconnect
- a stronger independent umpire to help resolve long-running disputes and enforce genuine, good faith bargaining.
- more rights for casuals and a path to permanent work
- limits to fixed-term contracts.
- more options for multi-employer bargaining to get wages moving
- stopped employers cancelling agreements during bargaining
- Fair Work given the power to arbitrate agreements if employers delay or frustrate negotiations
- workers cannot be worse off if Fair Work arbitrates an agreement.
- better equal pay laws
- stronger laws to stop sexual harassment and discrimination
- stronger rights for parents and carers for flexible work
- expansion of the government Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme, increasing the total weeks of leave from 20 to 26 weeks by 2026 with super paid on PPL from July 2025.
- made wage theft a crime
- an increase in fines for wage theft
- banned pay secrecy clauses
- made super a workplace right
- made it illegal to advertise jobs below the award wage
- made it easier and quicker to recover unpaid wages.
- improved access to workplaces for unions to deal with work health and safety.