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National Employment Standards
The National Employment Standards (NES) is a set of eleven minimum entitlements for employees in Australia who are covered by the Fair Work Act 2009. An award, enterprise agreement, other registered agreement or employment contract cannot provide for conditions that are less than the national minimum wage or the National Employment Standards and they can not be excluded. The NES have applied to employees since 1 January 2010, having replaced the previous five entitlement standard (called the Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard) under the WorkChoices legislation.
As most Australian employees are covered by the Fair Work Act, the National Employment Standards are considered a cornerstone of the Australian industrial relations system. Breaching the National Employment Standards can bring about serious legal consequences, and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia has sanctioned employers with significant penalties for non-compliance.
Minimum standards feature prominently across the industrial relation systems of most modern economies, establishing a floor of workplace rights and entitlements. Such standards promote fair treatment of workers by protecting job security and working conditions. Despite the significance of legislated minimum standards internationally, prior to the NES these were confined to basic entitlements at the state level and included public holidays and long service leave. General standards were developed through regulation and judicial bodies such Fair Work Australia.
Early in the 1990s came an increase in statutory minimum standards through the enactment of the Industrial Relations Reform Act 1993 (Cth), which implemented minimum standards on matters such as unfair dismissal, notice requirements for termination, and other matters. Inspired by what is considered to be 'neoliberal philosophies', this reform was also intended to displace awards in favour of enterprise bargaining. The Howard Government introduced WorkChoices, considered to be the 'most radical neoliberal reform' at the federal level.
With WorkChoices came the AFPCS, a set of five statutory minimum standards, to much criticism. Bray and Stewart describe the Fair Work Act as a 'rebalancing' of WorkChoices, and the NES formed part of this reform.
There are eleven minimum conditions covered under the National Employment Standards:
Maximum weekly hours: This standard provides that employers must not request or require an employee to work more than 38 hours for full-time employees or the ordinary hours of work for a part-time employee.
Requests for flexible working arrangements: This standard allows for employees to request a change to their working arrangements where such change relates to any of the circumstances listed in the Act, which includes caring for children or family, disability, age, or family violence.
National Employment Standards
The National Employment Standards (NES) is a set of eleven minimum entitlements for employees in Australia who are covered by the Fair Work Act 2009. An award, enterprise agreement, other registered agreement or employment contract cannot provide for conditions that are less than the national minimum wage or the National Employment Standards and they can not be excluded. The NES have applied to employees since 1 January 2010, having replaced the previous five entitlement standard (called the Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard) under the WorkChoices legislation.
As most Australian employees are covered by the Fair Work Act, the National Employment Standards are considered a cornerstone of the Australian industrial relations system. Breaching the National Employment Standards can bring about serious legal consequences, and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia has sanctioned employers with significant penalties for non-compliance.
Minimum standards feature prominently across the industrial relation systems of most modern economies, establishing a floor of workplace rights and entitlements. Such standards promote fair treatment of workers by protecting job security and working conditions. Despite the significance of legislated minimum standards internationally, prior to the NES these were confined to basic entitlements at the state level and included public holidays and long service leave. General standards were developed through regulation and judicial bodies such Fair Work Australia.
Early in the 1990s came an increase in statutory minimum standards through the enactment of the Industrial Relations Reform Act 1993 (Cth), which implemented minimum standards on matters such as unfair dismissal, notice requirements for termination, and other matters. Inspired by what is considered to be 'neoliberal philosophies', this reform was also intended to displace awards in favour of enterprise bargaining. The Howard Government introduced WorkChoices, considered to be the 'most radical neoliberal reform' at the federal level.
With WorkChoices came the AFPCS, a set of five statutory minimum standards, to much criticism. Bray and Stewart describe the Fair Work Act as a 'rebalancing' of WorkChoices, and the NES formed part of this reform.
There are eleven minimum conditions covered under the National Employment Standards:
Maximum weekly hours: This standard provides that employers must not request or require an employee to work more than 38 hours for full-time employees or the ordinary hours of work for a part-time employee.
Requests for flexible working arrangements: This standard allows for employees to request a change to their working arrangements where such change relates to any of the circumstances listed in the Act, which includes caring for children or family, disability, age, or family violence.