Legislation
NSW Industrial Relations (NSW IR) works with employers and employees to achieve fair, equitable and productive workplaces. NSW IR supports the NSW Government as a participant in the national workplace relations system, by monitoring and advising on workplace relations developments and initiatives.
NSWIR works in partnership with the (Commonwealth) Fair Work Ombudsman to ensure New South Wales private sector businesses comply with their responsibilities under the national workplace relations system, as well as administering state laws regulating shop trading hours, public holidays and long service leave.
NSWIR conducts compliance activities across the State in order to educate the community about New South Wales industrial relations laws as well as educating employers and employees on the Fair Work system. These compliance activities are proving to be an effective and efficient way to assist large numbers of NSW employers and employees to understand their employment rights and obligations.
Industrial relations legislation and related laws
Employers and employees have certain obligations or duties to each other under common law, statutes and their accompanying regulations.
NSW Industrial Relations, part of the NSW Department of Finance and Services, administers the following legislation regulating employment matters: * Annual Holidays Act 1944 No 31 * Associated General Contractors Insurance Company Limited Act 1980 No 38 * Broken Hill Trades Hall Site Act 1898 No 31 * Broken Hill Trades Hall Site Extension Act 1915 No 42 * Builders Labourers Federation (Special Provisions) Act 1986 No 17 * Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986 No 19 * Coal Industry (Industrial Matters) Act 1946 No 44 * Contract Cleaning Industry (Portable Long Service Leave Scheme) Act 2010 No 122 * Employment Protection Act 1982 No 122 * Entertainment Industry Act 1989 No 230 * Essential Services Act 1988 No 41 * Funeral Services Industry (Days of Operation) Repeal Act 2000 No 14 * Hairdressers Act 2003 No 62 * Industrial Relations Act 1996 No 17 * Industrial Relations Advisory Council Act 2010 No 76 * Industrial Relations (Child Employment) Act 2006 No 96 * Industrial Relations (Commonwealth Powers) Act 2009 No 115 * Industrial Relations (Ethical Clothing Trades) Act 2001 No 128 * Long Service Corporation Act 2010 No 123 * Long Service Leave Act 1955 No 38 * Long Service Leave (Metalliferous Mining Industry) Act 1963 No 48 * Public Holidays Act 2010 No 155 * Retail Trading Act 2008 No 49 [formerly Shop Trading Act 2008]
Related information: * NSW Government submissions