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Changes are needed to the "basic architecture" of the National Employment Standards and working time provisions in modern awards to better support working carers, a literature review has found.

The review, conducted as part of the Fair Work Commission's examination of work and care aspects of modern awards, found the current workplace relations framework has failed to keep pace with or respond to the changing nature of work and the "evolving needs of worker carers".

But the authors of the Western Sydney University review, professors Meg Smith and Sara Charlesworth, say the Secure Jobs Act, which inserted a new aim to promote job security and gender equality in the Fair Work Act, "may well present an important impetus to regulatory innovation"...