The key changes include:

• Extending the right to request flexible working arrangements to all employees;
• How employers and employees should agree on rest and meal breaks;
• Establishing a process for the transfer of employees in some industries if there is a restructure in the business or a change in business owner;
• Clarifying the confidential information that employers are obliged to give to affected employees in dismissal or redundancy situations;
• Changes to collective bargaining: reaching new collective agreements, opting out of multi-employer bargaining, removing the 30 day rule for new, non-union employees and allowing pay deductions of employees who take part in partial strikes;
• Setting time frames for the Employment Relations Authority to make determinations in an employment dispute.

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