The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations is a position currently held by Tony Burke in the Albanese ministry since 1 June 2022, following the Australian federal election in 2022. In the

Government of Australia The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Governmen ...

, the minister administers this portfolio through the

Department of Employment and Workplace Relations The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (also called DEWR) is an Australian government department formed on 1 July 2022. History The department was formed by way of an Administrative Arrangements Order issued on 1 June 2022. It ...

Portfolio scope

Other bodies in these portfolios include,: * Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency *

Australian Building and Construction Commission The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is an independent, statutory authority of the Australian Government, responsible for promoting understanding and enforcing workplace relations compliance in the Australian building and co ...

Comcare Comcare is a statutory authority of the Australian Federal Government established under the ''Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act'' 1988Fair Work Commission The Fair Work Commission (FWC), until 2013 known as Fair Work Australia (FWA), is the Australian industrial relations tribunal created by the '' Fair Work Act 2009'' as part of the Rudd Government's reforms to industrial relations in Austral ...

Fair Work Ombudsman The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) (or formally, the Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman), is an Regulatory agency, independent statutory agency of the Government of Australia that serves as the central point of contact for free advice and information ...

* Registered Organisations Commission * Safe Work Australia * Workplace Gender Equality Agency

List of Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

The following individuals have been appointed as the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, or any of its precedent titles: Notes : Barnard was part of a two-man ministry that comprised Barnard and

Gough Whitlam Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. The longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1967 to 1977, he was notable for being the h ...

for fourteen days until the full ministry was commissioned. : Despite the First Rudd ministry ending on 24 June 2010, Gillard was Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations for four days in her first ministry, between 24 June and 28 June 2010, when the revised ministry was commissioned.

List of Assistant Ministers for Science, Jobs and Innovation

The following individuals have been appointed as Assistant Minister for Science, Jobs and Innovation, or any of its precedent titles:

List of Ministers for Industrial Relations

The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for Industrial Relations, or any of its subsequent titles:

References

External links

* {{Australian federal ministerial portfolios Employment and Workplace Relations Employment in Australia