Employment Law Information Webinar – Independant Contractors – The Recent High Court Decisions
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 [...]
Issuing of Formal Directions re Mandatory Vaccination of Authorised Workers
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 [...]
Employment Law Information Webinar – Employee Share Schemes
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 [...]
Return to work/office for fully vaccinated workers – requesting evidence of an employee’s vaccination status
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 [...]
Employment Law Information Webinar – Employment Law 2021
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 [...]
The High Court to determine whether truck drivers were employees or independent contractors
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 [...]
Can you direct your employees to get vaccinated?
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 [...]
Casual Employment – High Court upholds Workpac Appeal
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 [...]
Changes to Unfair Dismissal Regime – Sexual harassment now specifically amounts to “serious misconduct”
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 [...]
Unfair Dismissal – Increase in High Income Threshold
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 [...]