Draft policies of 2015 ACTU Congress

2015 ACTU CONGRESS DRAFT POLICIES

* Change to unfair dismissal laws, reducing the qualifying period for an unfair dismissal claim to three months (in line with common probation periods).

* All employee entitlements to be secure when companies become insolvent.

* A national long service leave standard and portability of long service.

* Employers to give three clear working days written notice of intention to lock out their workforce.

* Unions to not have to give 24 hours notice before they enter worksites.

* Changes to the Fair Work Act, requiring employers to disclose financial information, including internal accounts, budgets and forecasts, to bargaining parties.

* Industrial action to be available to workers seeking a collective agreement, without the need for a secret ballot.

* Increase to dad and partner leave from two to four weeks.

* Extra 10 days' paid domestic violence leave.

* Each level of government to establish a committee to oversee the management of finding and removing asbestos from the built environment.

* Young people in unions survey, with the results to be presented to the 2018 gathering.

(Source: ACTU)