FWC’s General Manager delivers reports on flexible work arrangements under the NES

The Fair Work Commission General Manager’s reports on flexible work arrangements under the National Employment Standards (NES) have been tabled in the House of Representatives.

The reports are in relation to the three yearly reporting requirements under the Fair Work Act 2009 (s 653) and the requirement for a written report on the first three years of the unfair dismissal system in the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments Act) 2009 (Cth) (item 20A, Schedule 18).

Every three years the Fair Work Commission General Manager is required to report on:

• the operation of the NES provisions relating to employee requests for flexible working arrangements and requests for extensions of unpaid parental leave;

• developments in Australia in making enterprise agreements;

• the extent to which individual flexibility arrangements under modern awards and enterprise agreements are being agreed to, and the content of those arrangements.

The General Manager tabled the following four reports:

• Report into enterprise agreement-making in Australia under the FW Act: 2009–2012

• Report into the extent to which individual flexibility arrangements are agreed to and the content of those arrangements: 2009–2012

• Report into the operation of the provisions of the NES relating to requests for flexible working arrangements and extensions of unpaid parental leave: 2009–2012, and

• Report into the operation of the first three years of the Fair Work Act unfair dismissal system. 

The reports are available in the TimeBase LawOne product as attachments to the Fair Work Act 2009.

More information about the General Manager’s reporting requirements is available here.

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