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The Federal Government is seeking feedback on a number of proposed Fair Work reforms, including strengthening anti-discrimination and adverse action protections, classifying casuals, and criminalising wage theft.

In a recent consultation paper, the Government poses numerous "options for reform" regarding employee protections, with the aim of aligning "key features" of existing anti-discrimination laws and clarifying exemption provisions.

"Discrimination law is an evolving area of practice, and the law needs to keep pace with contemporary community standards and expectations. Since the commencement of the Fair Work Act's anti-discrimination framework in 2009, there have been a number of developments in discrimination laws in Australia which have not flowed through to the Fair Work framework," the paper says...