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The Fair Work Commission has recently dealt with three disputes concerning employees who were stood down during the COVID-19 pandemic, either through the pre-existing provisions in the Fair Work Act or a Jobkeeper enabling stand down direction. Given...
As part of the NSW Government's COVID-19 Response Plan, first home buyers will now be exempt from paying transfer duty on newly built homes below $800,000 and will be eligible for a discount on the transfer duty for newly built homes valued up to $1 ...
As Australia commences its return to normality, the internet has been abuzz with questions about the return of employees to their workplaces. When will it happen? How will it happen? And, increasingly, can staff refuse to return? As we trans...
Recently, Australia's key competition and consumer regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the ACCC), granted interim authorisation to tenant retailers to collectively bargain with landlords for rent relief ami...
Directors and secretaries can now validly execute documents on behalf of their companies by signing those documents using an electronic signature. For documents that require the signatures of two company officers, those documents can now also be sign...
The NSW State Government has recently passed new regulations affecting residential tenancies. The Residential Tenancies Amendment (COVID-19) Regulation 2020 imposes restrictions on landlords' rights to evict tenants who are unable to pay ren...
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...
In conjunction with the recently enacted Retail and Other Commercial Leases (COVID-19) Regulation 2020 (the Regulations), the NSW State Government has now implemented their $440 million land tax relief package to assist comm...
On 8 April 2020, the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Bill 2020 was passed by Federal Parliament, amending the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). This guide provides a summary of key features of the legislation,...