More flexibility and choice at work underpin upcoming changes in the Employment Relations Amendment Act, which comes into effect on 6 March.
The Act includes a handful of changes that will affect small to medium businesses, including more flexibility around rest and meal breaks, and opening flexi-time up to everyone not only parents and caregivers.
The Act focuses on six main areas:
The main changes for small and medium businesses are:
The changes here aim to improve people’s participation in the labour market and to better reflect modern lifestyles.
The key changes are:
The Act aims to make the rest and meal break rules in the Employment Relations Act more flexible, such as to balance breaks with business continuity.
The Act:
More information about the changes is available on the Employment.govt website(external link).