The Community and Public Sector Union State Public Services Federation Group's (CPSU/SPSF) submission to the recent Fair Work Inquiry is now available to download.

The submission suggested that the Fair Work Act would be improved by adding the following amendments:

• empowering the tribunal with more general arbitral powers
• deal more comphrensively with the problem of multiple bargaining representatives who do not actively bargain
• empower the Tribunal with greater powers to resolve bargaining disputes
• extend the time limit within which protected action can be taken
• provide that the employer responsive action be taken only after the provision of three days notice
• provide a definition of “employees employed at the time”
• provide the Tribunal with a broad discretion to deal with disputes about a right to request changes to work arrangements related to parental responsibilities
• amended the Unfair dismissal regime enabling employees who've completed an agreement mandated probationary period of less than six months access to Unfair dismissals
• expand the definitions of “old employer” and “transferable instruments” with respect to transfer of business to include circumstances where the old employer is the Crown in Right of a State or a State agency

Download the full submission  CPSU/SPSF Submission Fair Work Australia Review (765.73 kB)