The prevalence of sexual harassment in the workplace is a topic that is front and centre for many employers at the moment. As recent media attention shows, a failure to eliminate or prevent sexual harassment in the workplace creates significant risks to employers and...
Jennifer Kimber v Sapphire Coast Community Aged Care Ltd [2021] FWC 1818 In early 2020, the New South Wales Government issued a public health order (PHO) requiring any person entering the facility to have an up-to-date vaccination against the flu. In accordance with...
As a result, employers have new obligations with respect to their existing casual employees and any new casual employees they employ after 27 March 2021. Casual Fair Work Information Statement The Fair Work Ombudsman has now published a Casual Employment Information...
On 22 March 2021, the much reduced Bill was passed through Parliament. Provisions relating to wage theft penalties, the length of greenfield agreements and enterprise agreement bargaining including controversial changes to the Better Off Overall Test were abandoned....
The Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 (the Bill) was introduced into Federal Parliament on 9 December 2020. The Bill seeks to simplify and streamline the currently complex enterprise agreement approval process....
According to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission: ‘Worker screening is a way to help check that the people who are working, or wish to work, with NDIS participants don't present an unacceptable risk to people with disability. Worker screening is an important...
The Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 (the Bill) was introduced into Federal Parliament on 9 December 2020. Amongst other things, the Bill introduces a common statutory definition of casual employment; enables casual...
Click here to download a pdf copy of the 2020 Year in Review. Summary of key developments COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the speedy enactment of a number of significant short-term government schemes as well as amendments to industrial legislation,...
The Minister for Industrial Relations – Christian Porter says the aim of the government is to extend existing JobKeeper flexibilities for employers, especially small employers, in distressed sectors of the Australian economy. The Fair Work Amendment (Supporting...
The Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 (the Bill) was introduced into Federal Parliament on 9 December 2020. Amongst other things, the Bill seeks to “enhance the Fair Work Act compliance and enforcement framework to more...