Corporate Plan

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations was established as a new Commonwealth entity on 1 July 2022, and has responsibility for:

  • employment and national workforce, and skills and training functions transferred from the former Department of Education, Skills and Employment (now the Department of Education)
  • workplace relations functions from the Attorney-General’s Department
  • domestic operations and policy for the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Links to our past corporate plans via the departments that were previously responsible for our functions, are provided below.

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