Review an employer's practices against workplace delegates' rights
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the employer's policies, site access rules, communication systems and any applicable award or agreement delegates' rights term, build a table of each statutory entitlement of a workplace delegate (representation, reasonable communication, reasonable access to the workplace and facilities, and reasonable paid time for related training) against the employer's current practice, quoting the policy behind each row.
- What the lawyer must review
- Decide whether each practice gives delegates what is reasonable for this enterprise, identify changes needed to policies and site rules, and advise on the general protections risk of refusing or obstructing a delegate.
- Written for / version
- US
Open a jurisdiction version of this task to see which instruments apply: US
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the employer's policies, site access rules, communication systems and any applicable award or agreement delegates' rights term, build a table of each statutory entitlement of a workplace delegate (representation, reasonable communication, reasonable access to the workplace and facilities, and reasonable paid time for related training) against the employer's current practice, quoting the policy behind each row. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Confirm the instructions, the jurisdiction and the complete relevant material before starting.
- Check each entitlement in the table against s 350C and any applicable award or agreement term.
- Quote the policy or practice document behind every row.
- Confirm whether the paid training time entitlement applies, because it does not where the delegate is employed by a small business employer.
- Check the output against the source documents named in it before it is relied on.
Sources
- Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) s 350C · 2026-10-18
These are suggested working checks. Confirm the required checking with the responsible lawyer before work starts; the checking approach does not establish permission to use AI.