On 24 February, our emploment lawyers Michael Bishop and Ben Drysdale discussed the recent High Court Decisions regarding Indpendant Contractors and how this can affect your business as well as steps your business should be taking. If you would like to view the recording of the webinar, please click on [...]
Late last week the Victorian Government released the formal Directions underpinning its announcement the prior week that those Victorian workers who had been classified as “authorised workers” during the pandemic would be required to be vaccinated in order to continue working. These Directions are framed in a similar way to [...]
On 14 October, our partner Michael Bishop discussed the different types of employee share & option schemes and whether they may be suited to your business. If you would like to view the recording of the webinar, please click on the below link... https://pointonpartnerspoc.sharefile.com/d-sd34d0d43809847fdadad8320c3045705 Authors [...]
We note that as part of the Victorian Government’s Roadmap for the easing of restrictions released several weeks ago it announced that once 80% of the community is fully vaccinated (anticipated to be around 5 November) then staff who have been working from home will be able to return to [...]
Our Employment Team hosted a webinar on Thursday 2 Sepetember 2021 which covered the following topics: - Employee Mandatory Vaccination Policies - The Issues. - Casual Employment in light of the High Court decision in Workpac v Rossato. The webinar was recorded, should you want to watch please click on [...]
The decision handed down in Jamsek v ZG Operations Australia Pty Ltd [2020] FCAFC 119 (Jamsek) is set to be heard by the High Court, as the next in a recent slew of employment matters being decided at the highest level. Pointon Partners wrote about the original decision of the Full Federal Court, [...]
The landscape around mandatory vaccines has shifted since March 2021 when we discussed this topic in our Employment Law webinar. As numerous States and Territories battle outbreaks of the Delta variant of COVID-19 and Australia’s vaccination program is being rolled out the Fair Work Ombudsman has issued new advice for employers [...]
Last week in the case of Workpac v Rossato the High Court unanimously upheld the appeal of the employer Workpac and ruled that the employee in question was a casual employee. In several related decisions delivered by the Federal Court since 2018 it had been held that: the employee working [...]
As from 10 July 2021, amendments to the Fair Work Regulations have had the effect of explicitly categorising sexual harassment as “serious misconduct” for the purposes of the unfair dismissal laws. Other defined pre-existing grounds included theft, fraud or assault. This amendment was in response to The Respect @ Work [...]
Given that we have now ticked over into a new financial year, we thought it worthwhile making you aware of the new high income threshold for unfair dismissal purposes. It has increased from $153,600 to $158,500 in respect of dismissals taking place on or after 1 July 2021. Employees earning above [...]
