WA Premier Roger Cook has confirmed the state is not considering changing the law to give workers the right to work from home two days a week if it\u2019s reasonable to do so. <\/p>\n
Victoria\u2019s government is moving forward with its pledge to enshrine working from home as a legal right, with legislation to be introduced into Parliament next year. <\/p>\n
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But Cook says it\u2019s not something the west will follow.<\/p>\n
\u201cWA employees are entitled under our state industrial relation laws to make flexible working arrangements and the state doesn\u2019t have any plans to mandate working from home requirements,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that in a modern workplace that more flexible workplace arrangements are a fact of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
He declined to be drawn on whether the Victorian government\u2019s move was a bad one, instead pointing to their extended lock-downs during the pandemic, and different attitudes towards working from home. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that in Victoria there\u2019s a much bigger culture in relation to working from home because that was a fact of their life during COVID, it didn\u2019t become a fact of life for West Australian workers,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WA Premier Roger Cook has confirmed the state is not considering changing the law to give workers the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-120023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114974420072653422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}