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Workers' Rights.

Queensland workers deserve a healthy and safe workplace.

Queensland leads the nation when it comes to protecting workers’ rights – and we want to keep it that way.


Steven recognises the importance of a job and the need to work in a safe and healthy environment and that workers’ rights are protected. 


The Miles Government has strengthened workplace health and safety laws by:

  • expanding industrial manslaughter laws to protect innocent bystanders and hold developers accountable

  • enhancing worker consultation and the election of health and safety representatives

  • leading the nation in strengthening rights for health and safety representatives and permit entry holders, including the right to take photos, videos, and measurements to conduct tests at the workplace

  • clarifying the rights of health and safety representatives to direct unsafe work to cease

  • entrenching the primacy of registered industrial organisations in representing workers in all work health and safety matters

  • streamlining dispute resolution

  • stopping businesses from insuring against penalties for breaching safety laws.

 

We led the nation on addressing the serious health risk to workers from engineered stone by advocating for and securing a national ban on use, supply, importation and manufacture of engineered stone.


We’ve enhanced our national leading workers’ compensation scheme through:

  • providing quick default payments for injured workers 

  • ensuring greater worker say in rehabilitation

  • requiring more early intervention for workers – to reduce the risk of secondary mental injuries

  • strengthening suitable duties and return to work obligations

  • creating future flexibility to extend workers’ compensation to gig workers in line with new federal laws

  • expanding the list of deemed diseases for firefighters – amongst the highest of any Australian workers’ compensation scheme

 

And new reforms introduced in the Respect at Work legislation will ensure employers have a positive duty to protect workers from sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace.

Our Record.

This Labor Government has a strong record on leading the nation in a reform agenda that has resulted in greater protections for working Queenslanders and their families since 2015, including:

  • Establishing Australia’s first labour hire licensing scheme to protect labour hire workers and support responsible labour hire providers

  • Making deliberate wage theft a criminal offence – the first operational wage theft laws in Australia 

  • Introducing industrial manslaughter laws – the first state in Australia to do so

  • The nation’s first paid domestic and family violence leave with 10 days leave 

  • Creating a new portable long service leave scheme for community service workers

  • Restoring rights to injured workers to common law workers’ compensation stripped away by the LNP 

  • Providing presumptive workers’ compensation access for first responders suffering from PTSD 

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This is all at risk under the LNP.

The LNP, both in Government and in Opposition, have an appalling record on critical matters that affect workers. 

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In Government, they attacked workers’ rights including cutting the rights of injured workers to common law compensation, lowering WHS standards and sacking 14,000 public servants (after telling them they had ‘nothing to fear’).

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And, in Opposition, the LNP has consistently voted against our nation-leading reforms that protect workers, including most recently when it came to the historic Respect at Work Bill. 

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We know the LNP will always back in their corporate mates over protecting workers’ rights.

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