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Recent changes to the Fair Work Act are set to create new adverse action risks for employers, a lawyer warns.

Amendments regarding protected attributes, flexible work requests, family and domestic violence leave, and pay secrecy will likely become the subject of general protections claims in future, Henry William Lawyers senior associate Renee Kasbarian says in an HR Daily Premium webcast.

For example, an employee who asks colleagues about their remuneration details and is then performance managed or dismissed, "may look to make a general protections claim alleging that that action has been taken because [they] asked other employees about their remuneration or their pay", she says...