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Employment, Safety & Education Updates
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
15 March 2024
Working From Home: Honest Flexibility Or A Holiday In Disguise?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
26 October 2023
Court Bursts Managing Director’s Bubble For Underpayments
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
10 August 2023
High Court Finds Employer Not Responsible For Urination In Shared Accommodation
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
25 July 2023
Cleaner’s Allegations Of Bullying Turn Out To Be Trash and Case Alert: Public Holidays To Be Reviewed By The High Court
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
13 June 2023
Knead-To-Know: HR Manager Found Personally Liable After Hasty Sacking Of Pizza Production Worker
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
14 March 2023
Employers Too Quick To Dismiss For Isolated Misconduct
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
16 January 2023
Key changes made to the Fair Work Act 2009 by the “Secure Jobs, Better Pay” Act
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
15 November 2022
Adverse Action ‘Decision-Makers’ And Update On Enterprise Bargaining Developments
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
09 September 2022
Key Changes Made To The Long Service Leave Act
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
19 July 2022
Migration Update For Employers: PR For Short-Term TSS Visa Holders & Workforce Australia
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
11 July 2022
Enough is Enough: Implications Of The Parliamentary Inquiry Into Sexual Harassment Against Women In The FIFO Mining Industry
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
01 June 2022
Mandatory Influenza Vaccinations – The New Norm?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
22 April 2022
Intolerance of Criminal Record Results in Workplace Dismissal
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
18 February 2022
Lavan Alert: If the contract says it should quack like a duck, it is a duck
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
16 February 2022
Dismissal for refusing to provide vaccination status
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
09 February 2022
Migration Update For Employers: Australia's Borders Finally Reopening
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
14 October 2021
Flexibility in the workplace was too much of a stretch
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
19 July 2021
Social media and its connection to employment
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
12 April 2021
Job Enquiry Results in Discrimination Payout
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
02 March 2021
Can a casual employee be too “casual”?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
15 October 2020
Personal/Carer's leave: High Court calls it a "day"
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
14 August 2020
Deregistration no barrier to determining unfair dismissal
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
12 June 2020
A casual shock to employers - the Rossato decision
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
09 April 2020
New Safety Laws are coming soon - What does this mean for your business?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
27 March 2020
COVID-19 UPDATE - Employment perspective
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
14 February 2020
Refusing to work overtime - whose right is that?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
13 June 2019
Abusing the process – can “stop bullying” orders thwart disciplinary action?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
18 April 2019
When “alpha male” behaviour crosses the line to sexual harassment
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
12 April 2019
Just an “alpha male” or a perpetrator of sexual harassment?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
15 February 2019
New Year, New Updates in Industrial Relations!
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
31 October 2018
Is employment law about to catch up with the gig economy?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
25 September 2018
The decision that could redefine casual employment
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
15 June 2018
Unpaid Domestic Violence Leave: A new unpaid entitlement for employees
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
18 April 2018
Payroll Reporting to the ATO is mandatory from 1 July 2018 - Are you ready?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
14 March 2018
Qualifying periods vs probationary periods of employment: how different are they?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
15 February 2018
Modern slavery
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
20 October 2017
New laws provide greater protections for workers
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
27 September 2017
Working from home: Beware the employee dressed as a contractor
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
24 August 2017
Accountants and professional advisors: are you liable for the wrongdoing of your client?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
23 June 2017
Changes to employer’s obligations from 1 July: Are you ready?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
29 May 2017
New Commonwealth Building Code: will you be compliant in time?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
18 April 2017
Anti-bullying order stops misconduct investigation
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
05 April 2017
Is working overseas “continuous” for the purposes of the Long Service Leave Act?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
14 February 2017
How far can employers intrude into employees' private lives?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
09 November 2016
Commission confirms that there is no contractual right to dismiss “at will” in Australia
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
18 August 2016
Workplace investigations and the Security and Related Activities (Control) Act
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
11 July 2016
Bully manager costs employer over $400,000
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
13 May 2016
Long Service Leave - does it apply to service overseas?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
24 February 2016
Adverse Action – the boundaries may be expanding
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
02 November 2015
Out of sight, not out of mind - beware the 457 visa
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
25 September 2015
Social media in the workplace
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
04 June 2015
Fit for Work or Not Fit for Work
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
02 April 2015
Unpaid interns become expensive work experience for an employer
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
25 February 2015
Harassment policy found to be contractual and binding on the employer
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
10 December 2014
Christmas functions with a legal hangover
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
08 October 2014
High Court rejects implied term of mutual trust and confidence
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
26 August 2014
Bargaining Notices - how much information is too much?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
12 June 2014
School responsible for parents’ nervous shock
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
29 May 2014
The new bullying legislation - the first five months
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
24 April 2014
Social media in the workplace – traps for employers and employees alike
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
15 April 2014
Bullying roundup
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
27 February 2014
Employment snippets for employers – three common misconceptions
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
12 December 2013
Christmas functions and the aftermath
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
21 November 2013
Be careful what you “induce or encourage” an employee to do
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
20 November 2013
What is bundled consent?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
16 October 2013
Implement your bullying policy or take the consequences
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
04 September 2013
Redundancy under the Fair Work Commission spotlight
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
19 June 2013
Adverse action and workplace safety
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
29 April 2013
Employment law wrap up
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
02 April 2013
Social media: the trapdoor opens
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
26 October 2012
Internet policy breached but employees reinstated
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
08 October 2012
Breach of mutual trust and confidence results in significant damages
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
07 September 2012
High Court defines scope of adverse action
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
03 September 2012
Employer avoids liability with effective application of sexual harassment policy
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
01 August 2012
High Court set to rule on adverse action
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
03 July 2012
Time off work on workers’ compensation benefits is “continuous service”
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
31 May 2012
Medical certificates from employees lead to their dismissal
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
26 April 2012
Employer company was a ‘sham’
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
29 March 2012
No social media policy results in employee reinstatement
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
03 February 2012
Western Australia waits a while for national workplace OHS law
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
15 December 2011
The good, the bad and the ugly: staff Christmas parties
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
29 November 2011
Adverse action under the Fair Work Act
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
24 November 2011
Facebook and the workplace
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
27 October 2011
Teacher sued about classroom comments
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
28 September 2011
Safety breaches result in employee dismissals
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
26 August 2011
Community service - the employer's obligations
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
28 July 2011
Christmas time dismissal proves costly for text message employer
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
30 June 2011
Do your records stack up?
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
17 June 2011
Misuse of employers' property
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
27 May 2011
The new Federal Occupational Health and Safety legislation: practical steps
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
27 May 2011
The new Federal OHS laws: practical steps that are required
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
21 May 2011
Disability discrimination: Walker v The State of Victoria
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
29 April 2011
‘Adverse action’ – the expanding trap
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
24 February 2011
The new Federal OHS laws: Expanded duties and substantial increased penalties
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
28 January 2011
'Adverse action' against independent contractors
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
09 December 2010
Christmas cheer without too much beer
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
28 October 2010
Adverse Action –the hidden sting in the Fair Work Act
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
05 October 2010
Work functions, private time and the boundaries
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
27 August 2010
Failure to follow dismissal policy results in compensation to employee
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
29 July 2010
Adverse action tested under the Fair Work Act 2009
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
24 June 2010
'Guarantee of Annual Earnings' agreements
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
04 June 2010
BREAKING NEWS - Annual Wage Review 2010
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
27 May 2010
Paid parental leave almost a reality
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
19 April 2010
Employee's disregard of safety procedures results in dismissal
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
04 March 2010
Miscellaneous Award for Miscellaneous Workers
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
10 February 2010
Reasonable additional hours of work
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
10 December 2009
Fair Work Information Statement
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
27 November 2009
CASE NOTE: Ryan v Premachandran [2009] NSWSC 1186 (6 November 2009)
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
30 October 2009
Good Faith Bargaining gets some definition
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
01 September 2009
Dismissal of hospital photographer ends in order for re-employment
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
20 July 2009
Sham Dismissal results in $466,000 damages award
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
29 May 2009
Contractor with multiple clients still an employee
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
24 April 2009
Swearing about the Boss gets the Sack
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
06 March 2009
Redundancy - it can be expensive to cut expenditure
Employment, Safety & Education Updates
19 January 2009
Redeployed employees were not made redundant