Fair work practices
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Documenting what’s expected at work helps everyone understand the rules and how things should be done. Learn about creating and implementing workplace policies and procedures.

• Creating workplace policies and procedures
• Alcohol and other drugs
• Equipment, vehicles and clothing
• Growing performance, training and development
• Performance issues

Learn about employer and employee rights and responsibilities around privacy at work.

Employers who plan to make changes that could affect employees’ jobs must give reasons and follow a fair process. Learn about workplace change and specific situations like when a business is sold.

• The basics of workplace change
• Workplace change process
• Restructuring when a business is sold or transferred
• When your employer goes into liquidation or bankruptcy
• Supporting employees through workplace change

Unions support employees in the workplace. They bargain for collective agreements with employers and help employees with information and advice about work-related issues.

• Unions
• Employment Relations Education: courses and criteria
• Collective agreements
• Collective bargaining
• Strikes and lockouts

Implementing and demonstrating ethical and sustainable work practices is essential to future-proofing your business. This guidance focuses on how workers are treated.

• About ethical and sustainable work practices
• Ethical and sustainable work practice due diligence
• Auditor’s approach to assuring compliance with employment standards
• Director’s approach to ethical and sustainable work practices
• Employers
• Franchisors
• Investor’s approach to ethical and sustainable work practices
• Procurer’s approach to ethical and sustainable work practices
• Recruiters

Guidance for employees, employers and businesses around COVID-19 and the workplace.

An employee’s pay, conditions, experiences in the workplace and access to jobs should not be affected by gender. This section has a range of pay and gender information and resources.

• Gender pay gap
• Pay and employment equity review process
• Pay and employment equity review analysis
• Evaluation of equitable jobs
• Spotlight skills recognition tool

Flexible working arrangements can benefit everyone. Learn about types of flexible work including working from home, requesting flexible working and how to respond to a request for flexible working.

• Types of flexible work
• Requesting flexible working arrangements
• Responding to a flexible working request
• Working from home