| To provide assistance to representative employers’ and workers’ organisations to: (a) support engagement by representative employers’ and workers’ organisations, and their members, through enhanced tripartite governance structures across the Commonwealth workplace relations portfolio, to inform Commonwealth policy development; and (b) enable running of workplace productivity, education and training initiatives by representative employers’ and workers’ organisations to support their members to engage in Commonwealth law reform processes, encourage take up of new Commonwealth laws in their workplaces, and monitor and evaluate implementation of Commonwealth law reforms on the ground; and (c) ensure greater emphasis on tripartite engagement and social dialogue to deliver the Commonwealth Government’s workplace relations reform agenda and allow appropriate engagement on reforms by key peak agencies to manage the broad impacts of reforms; and (d) enable representative employers’ and workers’ organisations, as key intermediaries, to raise awareness of Commonwealth workplace reforms among persons who are subject to those laws, which will help increase compliance with Commonwealth workplace laws and reduce the regulatory burden associated with unintended non‑compliance. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under either or both of the following: (i) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 7; (ii) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Labour Administration: Role, Functions and Organisation, particularly Articles 2, 4, 5 and 6; or (b) undertaken in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth. |