Best practice guides

Coronavirus and Australian workplace laws

If your workplace has been impacted by coronavirus, we have information about your workplace rights and obligations at Coronavirus and Australian workplace laws.

A number of temporary changes have been introduced due to coronavirus including:

• JobKeeper – changes to the Fair Work Act to support the JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme
• temporary award changes – allowing for temporary workplace flexibility in some awards
• pandemic leave – unpaid and paid pandemic leave (including worker and disaster payments) during coronavirus.

These changes may affect the information and resources in this section.

Our best practice guides aim to help small businesses and employees with a range of workplace issues. By adopting best practice initiatives, employers and employees can achieve happier, fairer and more productive workplaces.

Each guide has a checklist to help achieve best practice.

Our best practice guides cover the following topics:

• Work and family
• The right to request flexible working arrangements
• Consultation and cooperation in the workplace
• Use of individual flexibility arrangements
• A guide for young workers
• An employer’s guide to employing young workers
• Gender pay equity
• Small business and the Fair Work Act
• Workplace privacy
• Managing underperformance
• Effective dispute resolution
• Improving workplace productivity through bargaining
• Parental leave.

What to do next

• Learn more about best practice by visiting our Online learning centre

Help for small business

• Find tools, resources and information you might need on our Small business page.

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