non-compete clauses

Non-compete agreement marked out beside a 2027 calendar block, representing proposed changes to non-compete clauses in Australian employment contracts.

The End of the Standard Non-Compete: How to Protect Your Business Before the 2027 Restraint Reforms

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There is a clause in almost every Australian employment contract that most employers have never tested, many could not enforce, and a great number are about to lose.  The Government has announced that from 2027 it will ban non-compete clauses for workers earning below the Fair Work Act high-income threshold, and prohibit wage-fixing and no-poach agreements between businesses. The reforms are not law yet. But the work

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Featured image for The Employer’s Compliance Calendar 2026–27 showing a digital compliance timeline alongside workplace policy and legal folders.

Six Changes, Eighteen Months: The Australian Employer’s Compliance Calendar for 2026 and 2027

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Most employers do not get caught out by the law they never heard of. They get caught out by the change they heard about, filed away, and did not diarise.  Between 1 July 2026 and the end of 2027 there are six separate changes with hard start dates, each requiring a different function to act — payroll, HR,

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