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Article: Work Choices - Rise in Discrimination Claims?(employment discrimination acts)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- May 16, 2006
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Key Point
While Work Choices will not have any direct effect on the operation of state and federal anti-discrimination laws, observers have suggested the new industrial relations reforms may indirectly lead to more discrimination-related claims.
A number of observers are predicting that with the introduction of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Work Choices) and, in particular, changes to the unfair dismissal laws, there will be a proliferation of claims in the anti-discrimination jurisdiction.
Work Choices introduces a new scheme for unfair dismissal claims under the Workplace Relations Act 1996. Such claims will now be ...