Practice Areas: Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective, Industrial Relations, Redundancy, Unfair Dismissal
Labour hire employees and agency workers may have some difficulty in making an unfair dismissal claim under ss 382 – 384 of the Fair Work Act. For...
Practice Areas: Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective, Industrial Relations, Redundancy, Unfair Dismissal
For casual employees to receive protections, they must have worked for an employer for the ‘minimum employment period’ referred to in ss 382-383...
Practice Areas: Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective, Industrial Relations
A reform opt-in agreement is a written agreement, which is made during the transitional period, between an independent contractor and the person employing...
Practice Areas: Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective, Industrial Relations, Employment and Human Resources
As a worker under 21 years of age, you are considered a junior employee and junior employees are also eligible for the 2012 Annual Wage Review. Special...
Practice Areas: Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective, OHS, Industrial Relations, Employment and Human Resources
If an employee is injured carrying out their duties, and the work undertaken was a significant contributing factor towards the injury or disease suffered,...
Practice Areas: Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective, Harassment, Redundancy, Unfair Dismissal
If the decision by Fair Work Australia in O’Keefe v William Muir’s Pty Ltd T/A Troy Williams The Good Guys [2011] FWA 5311 is any indication,...
Practice Areas: Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective, Harassment, Workplace Privacy, Unfair Dismissal
If you wish to terminate an employee for making derogatory comments on social media you need to be aware of a recent decision in Fair Work Australia where...
Practice Areas: Business & Commercial Law, Franchises, Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective, Discrimination, Harassment
Bullying is defined by its behaviour, and can potentially affect the emotional, mental and psychological well-being of workers. Harassment and discrimination...
Practice Areas: Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective
If we look towards case law, the actions that have been initiated by workers due to excessive workloads are generally psychiatric in nature. However,...
Practice Areas: Employment Law - Worker Perspective, Employment Law - Employer Perspective, Industrial Relations, Unfair Dismissal
When determining if the dismissal of an employee was harsh, unjust or unreasonable, the FWA will take into consideration the following elements:
• whether...
