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Changing employees' jobs
Last updated February 2024
This chapter explains how you can lawfully implement changes to an employee’s job and how to respond if an employee refuses to accept a change.
When can you change an employee’s job?
You can change the key elements of an employee’s job if it is permitted in the employee’s:
- employment contract;
- modern award; or
- enterprise agreement.
The key elements of a job may be found in several different documents, including:
- job advertisements;
- job descriptions;
- an employment contract;
- internal organisational charts;
- human resources policies;
- performance appraisal documents; and/or
- a modern award or enterprise agreement (if applicable).