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The Full Court of the Federal Court found that the "ordinary and customary turnover of labour" exemption to redundancy pay in the National Employment Standards did not apply to a large service company which dismissed its employees when their...
Employers take note: amendments to be incorporated into the Miscellaneous Award 2010 (Miscellaneous Award) on 1 July 2020 will extend the coverage of the award to more employees. Who does the Miscellaneou...
The high income threshold will increase to $153,600, effective from 1 July 2020. The Fair Work Commission has today released its annual increase to the high income threshold. This threshold affects how modern awards apply to employees and, i...
The Fair Work Commission's 2019/20 Annual Wage Review decision has now been handed down. A majority of the Expert Panel for annual wage reviews (Panel) noted that this review was undertaken during a global pandemic, with the...
On 13 May 2020, the NSW Government passed the COVID-19 Legislation Amendment (Emergency Measures—Miscellaneous) Bill 2020 (the Bill). The Bill introduces several new amendments to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 19...
In a bid to incentivise philanthropy during these tough times, the Federal Government is providing credits for Private Ancillary Funds that exceed their minimum yearly distributions (see the announcement here). Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs) are requ...
On 25 April 2020, the Minister for Health issued a determination under the Biosecurity Act to allow for the launch of the Federal Government’s COVIDSafe app (the Determination), to enable State and Territory health authorities to conduct “...
As reported in our earlier article, the NSW Government recently made new regulations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to make it easier for documents to be witnessed and attested. As discussed in that article, the witnessing and attestation of do...
On 24 April 2020 the NSW Government passed the Retail and Other Commercial Leases (COVID-19) Regulation 2020 which gave effect to the Commercial Tenancies Mandatory Code of Conduct that was released in early April. Eligib...