1 Fair Work Act 2009 s.157—FWC may vary etc. modern awards if necessary to achieve modern awards objective Family and domestic violence leave review 2021 (AM2021/55) JUSTICE ROSS, PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT HATCHER COMMISSIONER SPENCER MELBOURNE, 5 APRIL 2022 Family and domestic violence leave review 2021 – 4 yearly review of modern awards – leave to deal with family and domestic violence model term – Background Document 2 issues – questions for parties. [1] On 11 March 2022, we issued a Statement1 together with the following documents prepared by the Commission’s research section: A Background Document (Background Document 1) Information note—ACTU supplementary submission to the Family and Domestic Violence Leave Review Information note—Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave by business size [2] Parties were invited to respond to the questions set out in Background Document 1 in their written closing submissions to be filed in accordance with the Directions issued on 8 March 2022.2 [3] Submissions were received from: Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Australian Business Industrial and the New South Wales Business Chamber Ltd (ACCI) Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) – Final submissions on evidence; Final submissions and Response to Background Document Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) Victorian Government [4] The Commission’s research section has prepared the following documents that will be published with this statement: 1 [2022] FWCFB 31. 2 [2022] FWCFB 24. [2022] FWCFB 50 STATEMENT f_p_n_1_ [2022] FWCFB 50 2 Background Document 2 Information note—Initiatives to reduce family and domestic violence in Budget 2022– 23 [5] Background Document 2 summarises the submissions received in accordance with the Directions and the answers to the questions posed in Background Document 1. Background Document 2 includes some additional questions for the parties. [6] Parties should file their written responses to the questions in Background Document 2 by no later than 3pm on Thursday 7 April 2022. [7] The Commission’s Research Reference List has also been updated to include the following: Australian Government (2022), Budget Paper No. 2: Budget Measures, 29 March. Australian Government (2022), Women’s Budget Statement 2022–23, 29 March. Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network & Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (2022), Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network Data Report: Intimate partner violence homicides 2010–2018, Second Edition, Research report 03/2022, ANROWS. Morgan A and Boxall H (2022), Economic insecurity and intimate partner violence in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, Research report, Issue 2, ANROWS, January. [8] Parties can make submissions about these additions to the Research Reference List and about the Information Note on the Budget 2022-23 at the hearing on Friday 8 April 2022. PRESIDENT Printed by authority of the Commonwealth Government Printer <PR740032> f_p_n_2_