Standing orders

Your college has a rulebook: attendance limits, what counts as misconduct, who can suspend a student and on what process. Now imagine a factory where none of that is written down and the supervisor decides each morning what the rules are. Standing orders are the workplace rulebook that the Industrial Relations Code forces big employers to write, get checked by an officer, and publish. What happens when the boss wants to change the rules, or punish a worker under them?

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Standing orders are the written conditions of service, covering the matters listed in the First Schedule to the Industrial Relations Code 2020, that every industrial establishment with three hundred or more workers must frame, have certified by a certifying officer, and follow; they bind both sides and cannot be varied by oral evidence.

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