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Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Act 2021

Australian industrial relations law

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ112050277 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Act 2021 (Cth) is an act of the Parliament of Australia, which brought about considerable amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009. Prior to its passing, the legislation was considered to be the most significant industrial relations reform since the original at's passage. It was also first reform of industrial relations passed by a Coalition government since the WorkChoices legislation of the Howard government.

The Act

Defining casual employment

The Act's most significant reform was the defining of casual employment, confirming that casual employment will exist if:

Employment was offered on the basis an employer made no firm advance commitment to continuing and indefinite work according to an agreed pattern of work,

The employee accepts the offer of employment on that basis, and

The employment is as a result of that acceptance.

Casual conversion

The Act provides for landmark reform to casual conversion, requiring the offer of casual employment generally to be made to an employee working for 12 months or more with the last six months working a regular pattern of hours which could be worked as permanent.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Act 2021” as australian industrial relations law. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Fair, Work and Amendment can be independently traced.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q112050277. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Act 2021” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.