Back in 2024, we made a submission to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) as part of the Modern Awards Review 2023-2024: Making awards easier to use (AM2023/21). At the time, we were deep in the trenches with our SCHADS clients and wanted to contribute to the discussion about making Australia’s most complex awards easier to understand. Because we were at the frontline of both enterprise agreement (EA) negotiations and Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) investigations, we had front row seat