Employment Point-in-Time Service Updates

The Employment Point-in-Time Service has been updated to include the Fair Work Amendment (Fixed Term Contracts—Exceptions Measures) Regulations 2024 (Cth).

Fair Work Amendment (Fixed Term Contracts—Exceptions Measures) Regulations 2024

The purpose of the Regulations is to amend the Fair Work Regulations 2009 to:

• repeal the current exception from the fixed term provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 that applies to the live performance sector;
• prescribe an extension to the period of operation of the existing higher education sector exception to contracts entered into on or after 6 December 2023 and before 1 November 2025;
• repeal the current exception for non-government funded philanthropic entities;
• prescribe further exceptions, for the purposes of paragraph 333F(1)(i) of the Fair Work Act 2009, in relation to the philanthropic and not-for-profit, medical and health research, and public hospital sectors. These exceptions will apply to contracts entered into on or after commencement and before 1 November 2025.

These amendments have been updated in the Point-in-Time Employment Service current to 29 October 2024. (Note: Subscription required).

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