What are the main statutes and regulations relating to employment?
As Australia is a federation, employment law is governed by laws made by the parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia (federal law) as well as by parliaments of each of the states constituting the Commonwealth (state laws) and the legislative bodies of the territories (territory law). Since 27 March 2006, the principal legislation governing employment at federal level has been the Federal Workplace Relations Act 1996, as amended by the far-reaching Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (the Work Choices Act) and, more recently, by the initial stage of the legislative amendments made by the federal parliament, following the election of the new Labor government in November 2007….
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