Modern Awards Review 2023-24 (AM2023/21) Submission cover sheet Name Organisation

Recommendation 10 Awards should be varied to provide workers with the right to request work from home arrangements on an individual and collective basis, with access to dispute resolution by the Commission, and the same requirements for employers in terms of responding to the request and the information they need to provide to employees as a flexible working request. [...] It is clear that the review was to include one of the outcomes of the Job and Skills Summit, namely “the commencement of a consultation and research process considering the impact of workplace relations settings on work and care, including early childhood education and care, having regard to relevant findings and recommendations of the Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Work and Care.”. [...] In order to make flexible working arrangements a normal and accepted part of working life and to ensure that men and women can contribute more equally to paid and unpaid work, a variation to awards to make the right to request flexible work available to all workers (regardless of length of service or the reason) is necessary. [...] The ACTU and our affiliates propose that the relevant awards be varied to provide workers with the right to request work from home arrangements, with access to dispute resolution by the Commission, and the same requirements for employers in terms of responding to the request and the information they need to provide to employees. [...] Recommendation 10 Awards should be varied to provide workers with the right to request work from home arrangements on an individual and collective basis, with access to dispute resolution by the Commission, and the same requirements for employers in terms of responding to the request and the information they need to provide to employees as a flexible working request.