The Minister and Associate Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety are proactively releasing the titles of documents received from MBIE.

Titles of documents the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety received from MBIE in 2020.

Titles of documents the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety received from MBIE in 2021.

Titles of documents the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety received from MBIE in 2022.

On behalf of the Minister for ACC, the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment is consulting on the Minister’s proposed changes to regulations made under the Accident Compensation Act 2001 to deal primarily with the following three topics: Chinese medicine, paramedics, and audiometrists.

The Holidays (Increasing Sick Leave) Amendment Act 2021.

The Workplace Relations and Safety Minister has announced that the adult minimum wage will be rising to $23.15 per hour from 1 April 2024. This is an increase of 45 cents per hour from the current hourly rate of $22.70.

The Associate Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety announced today that parental leave payments will increase by 7.7 percent from 1 July 2023, to reflect the 7.7 percent rise in the average weekly earnings.

Feedback was received from a public consultation on better protections for vulnerable contractors in 2020.

Contracting arrangements, or contracts for services, are a fundamental part of our labour market, and are used across nearly all sectors of the economy.