Fair Work Action Plan: intersectional impacts 2025

Fair Work Action Plan: Intersectional Impacts 2025

This report provides analysis of the intersectional impacts of actions in the Fair Work Action Plan.

There are three elements to providing an intersectional approach within the plan:

• Information and guidance – we will promote an intersectional approach to data collection and policy development across the labour market through the creation and/or signposting of guidance, including our action to create and promote a centralised access hub of Fair Work resources for employers.
• Delivery – within our actions, where possible, we will take a targeted approach to address compound inequalities that are already well-evidenced for particular intersecting characteristics, such as racially minoritised women or young disabled people.
• Exploration – we recognise that the evidence base relating to intersecting inequalities is limited and reflects the systemic inequalities that we are committed to addressing. Some of our actions will seek to build on and strengthen the evolving evidence base and look at the cumulative impacts of multiple intersecting characteristics to inform labour market interventions.