Rights & obligations

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.

We provide fact sheets that cover a range of workplace rights and obligations. Current fact sheets include:

• 457 visa holders - workplace rights and entitlements
• Contractors and employees - what’s the difference
• Defence reservists - rights and responsibilities at work
• Employment conditions during natural disasters and emergencies
• Enterprise bargaining
• Franchisor responsibility
• Industrial action
• International students
• Maritime industry - workplace rights and entitlements
• Non-compliance with unfair dismissal orders
• On-hire employees services - workplace obligations
• Protections at work
• Record keeping and pay slips
• Right of entry
• Visa holders and migrant workers - workplace rights and entitlements
• When businesses change hands
• Workplace discrimination.

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