Program · Outcome 3: Facilitate jobs growth, including secure work, through policies and programs that promote fair, productive and safe workplaces
Program 3.1: Workplace Support
This program contributes to the outcome through: • the promotion of fair workplaces by ensuring the protection of employee entitlements in certain circumstances. • ensuring the efficient operation of the workplace relations system through initiatives designed to encourage employers and employees to adopt fair, productive, flexible and safe workplace relations.
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 55 reported
$637m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$1.5m (+0.2%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Administration Act 1992 | administered | $277m | $292m | +$15m +5.4% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 460 |
| Fair Entitlements Guarantee Act 2012 | administered | $269m | $256m | −$13m −4.9% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 461 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $89m | $89m | −$450k −0.5% | reported | Table 2.3.1, row 459 |