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The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 (the Bill) passed Parliament on 2 December 2022. We held a webinar on 1 December 2022 to highlight some of the change...
The first office festive season in three years is upon us. Over the last few years, social interactions within workplaces have been limited. But that is all behind us with the ease of pandemic related restrictions, social events are back in vogue. C...
Flexibility. The preference of many employees in a post pandemic world appears to be at the very least a 'hybrid' model of working – a mixture between work-from-home (or work-from-anywhere) and work from the office. Over the last almost three year...
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On 1 July 2022, a number of employment related financial thresholds increased for the 2022/23 financial year. These changes included a 5.2% minimum wage increase for employees not covered by an award or enterprise agreement and a 4.6% increase for wa...
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has recently been called on to determine whether a worker's offer to undergo polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing instead of receiving a COVID-19 vaccination was a reasonable alternative to receiving the vaccine. On...
Introduction The authors successfully acted for the NSW Department of Education in a crucial case where the NSWSC considered whether a school breached the duty of care owed to a student suffering a serious head injury whilst playing a 'hybri...
On 1 July 2021, a number of employment related financial thresholds increased for the 2021/22 financial year including the 2.5 percent minimum wage increase as well as the new 10 percent compulsory superannuation rate which came into effect on 1 July...