The Allan Labor government’s promise to legislate work-from-home rights for the private sector marks a state’s biggest incursion into federal workplace regulation in decades but is highly unlikely to be enforceable, multiple legal experts warn.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced her government would legislate a right for public and private sector employees to work from home for at least two days a week ahead of the November 2026 state election and is considering using state anti-discrimination laws to do so.

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