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Two individuals have recently been dealt jail sentences in circumstances where their contravention of work health and safety (WHS) duties had fatal consequences. The decision to order a custodial sentence in these cases signals an in...
Two recent decisions in the Fair Work Commission have considered the issue of when an employee can be dismissed for making a derogatory or insulting comment. As these cases highlight, the context in which a comment was said and any past acts of misco...
In our article published last week, we mentioned an update to many Modern Awards, to include provisions giving casua...
The introduction of the Fair Work Amendment (Casual Loading Offset) Regulations 2018 (Cth) will effectively alleviate the opportunity for employees, who have been incorrectly classified as ‘casuals’, from double-dipping on their entitlements...
As part of its four-yearly review of modern awards, a Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has handed down its provisional view1 that all modern awards should be varied to incorporate a ‘model term’ expanding the r...
Employers using complex corporate structures to exploit workers beware: the court can, and will, hold directors personally liable for using such structures to avoid their obligations under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). Ba...
An accounting firm has failed to convince the Full Federal Court to overturn a finding that it was “involved in” its client’s breaches of workplace laws and was therefore itself taken to have contravened the relevant sections of the Fair Work Act...
The Fair Work Commission has introduced unpaid domestic violence leave into all industry and occupational awards, effective 1 August 2018. Subject to meeting evidentiary requirements, award-covered employees are now entitled to family and domestic v...
The high income threshold has increased to $145,400, effective from 1 July 2018. The Fair Work Commission has released its annual increase to the high income threshold. This threshold affects how modern awards apply to employees and, importa...