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Following a series of decisions by the Fair Work Commission with respect to the validity of Notices of Employee Representational Rights (NERR) that employers have issued to employees, the Federal Government has attempted to take step...
We recently issued a brief summary of the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) 23 February 2017 decision on penalty rates. We now set out further details of the proposed changes for each of the modern awards considered and how they may affec...
A Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has this morning handed down its long awaited decision on weekend and public holiday penalty rates in the retail and hospitality industries. The FWC has reduced the Sunday and public ho...
Corporations and more particularly company directors need to be aware that obligations may arise simultaneously in several areas of the law. Equally, compliance with or breach of obligations in one area of law may flow to obligations arising in anoth...
Colin Wright (Mr Wright) was a mine operator for AGL at a coal mine and power station in Latrobe Valley. Shortly after completing his night shift on 27 August 2015 while driving home he drove straight through a roundabout, ploughed ...
The purpose of the Bill On 1 December 2016, the Queensland Parliament passed the Heavy Vehicle National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016 which will be to be incorporated within the uniform national law...
Businesses of all sizes have a litigation risk. Whether you’re a small business owner or a director of a publicly listed company, there are many aspects of being an owner/manager which may result in a potential exposure to litigation. When litigatio...
Transpacific, a company that provides recycling, waste management and industrial services, was ordered by the Federal Court of Australia to pay $363,000 to its insurer Comcare as Transpacific admitted contraventions of ss 16 and 17 of the Occupat...
The Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has recently handed down a decision in Re AKN Pty Ltd T/A Aitkin Crane Services [2015] FWCFB 1833. The Full Bench upheld the appeal from AKN Pty Ltd t/a Aitkin Crane Services (AKN) ...