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Do You Have a Right To Work From Home? This Australian Politician Thinks So.

A proposal in Victoria would require every business, no matter the size, to allow two days of remote work a week.

Reem Ibrahim | 3.6.2026 5:42 PM

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As American businesses are pulling back on working from home, the Australian government is trying to force companies to guarantee it.  

On Wednesday, Jacinta Allan, the premier of the Australian state of Victoria, proposed a bill that would give all employees, regardless of the size of the business, the right to work from home. The legislation—which will be introduced in July as a provision of the Equal Opportunity Act and go into effect in September—does not include exemptions for small businesses.

"The law will apply to all workers in all businesses, everywhere," Allan said during a press conference this week. Jaclyn Cymes, the Minister for Industrial Relations, said the policy is "good for business" and that "enshrining this right in law means no boss or Liberal can take it away from our workers."

To Cymes' credit,........

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