Fair Work Commission

This session examined local and international institutional reform approaches to identify best practice examples. The panelists in this session discussed recent developments in online dispute resolution – including efforts to increase user accessibility – as well as current challenges facing the sector.

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Principles of equal remuneration are well established in international and domestic law, but gender pay equity remains a persistent problem in Australia and abroad. This session examined recent initiatives taken in New Zealand to address pay equity barriers, with practitioners from Australia providing insight into how this issue is being experienced and addressed in Australian workplaces.

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The Commission’s New Approaches jurisdiction continues to progress since it commenced in 2014, focused on imbedding principles of interest-based negotiation into bargaining and dispute resolution processes at the workplace level. This session drew on experiences recent from the Commission and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in the United States to identify how interest-based processes can assist businesses and industry and employee groups to achieve positive outcomes for their workforces and memberships.

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This session examined how public sector agencies are re–orientating services to become more user–focused. The session explored examples from the Australian Taxation Office, the Australian Digital Health Agency, and the Canadian Industrial Relations Board, highlighting stakeholder engagement processes to enhance quality, credibility and application of public policy initiatives.

This session examined how the core work of dispute resolution agencies is changing amidst a global decline in organisational membership, and a rise in individual dispute and representation. The session explored trends in agency and tribunal responses to this structural change as well as scope for further work.