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In the media Legal Aid Victoria: Robust law reform is crucial to ensure respect at work A key recommendation that Victoria Legal Aid and other legal and community services support is a more proactive and preventative approach from employers, that lifts the burden from victims of harassment. This includes an enforceable positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act (08 April 2021). More. Australian Government s response to Respect @Work report In A Roadmap for Respect: Preventing and Addressing Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces (the Roadmap for Respect), the Government provides its response and sets out its long-term commitment to preventing and addressing sexual harassment ....
South Africaâs Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has appointed a five-member committee to review permits and visas issued to most immigrants who have been in that country since 2004. Motsoaledi said the move was meant to eradicate corruption in the Department of Home Affairs with indications pointing to possible issuance of permits or visas to wrong people. Addressing reporters in Pretoria on Wednesday, Minister Motsoaledi said the committee will review the Permanent Residence Permits (PRP), which are just a step away from citizenship, corporate visa, especially in the mining sector, business visa, (professional) critical skills visa, and retired personsâ visa, citizenship by naturalisation and study visa. He said: ....
Home Affairs task team to review all visas, permits issued since 2004 By IOL Reporter Share Pretoria – Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi on Wednesday announced the establishment of a ministerial committee that will review all permits and visas issued since 2004. This comes three weeks after Motsoaledi expressed the intention in Parliament to set up a task team to review some permits that were issued by the Department of Home Affairs over the years. This, he said, came after he identified the need to review the permits after realising a trend emerging from the outcomes of cases involving prominent people investigated by the department’s Counter Corruption Unit, which investigates wrongdoing by departmental officials, SAnews.gov.za reported. ....
In the media Australian senate endorses news media bargaining code Latest approval takes bargaining code between news media companies and Google and Facebook a step closer to law. Australia s controversial and internationally debated News Media Bargaining Code is a step closer to being enacted into legislation following the Senate s decision to pass the Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code Bill 2020 .(12 February 2021). More. Government moving in the right direction on Federal Judicial Commission The Law Council of Australia has long advocated for the establishment of a standalone Federal Judicial Commission and considers the government is moving in the right direction by ....
Foreign Relations Bill set to increase federal government oversight of state and territory arrangements Last week, Australia s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Bill 2020 ( Bill) passed both houses, bringing state and territory government arrangements with foreign territories within the domain of federal government oversight. The Bill is intended to ensure consistency between state and territory arrangements and the broader national interest by allowing the federal government to veto arrangements that are inconsistent with Australia s foreign policy or that may adversely affect relations with a foreign country. The Bill means that the federal government will be able to ensure that state and ....