Employment Law Information Webinar – Employment Law 2021
Our Employment Team hosted a webinar on Wendesday 9 June 2021 which covered the following topics: - Working from home: The changing landscape and the importance of policies - Protecting your business from former employees: A refresher on restraint of trade and confidentiality obligations. The [...]
Employment Law Information Webinar – Casual Employment Law Changes- What does it mean to you?
Our Employment Team presented a Webinar on 15 April 2021 on Casual Employment Law Changes - What does it mean for you? It covered the following topics: - New Legislative definition of Casual Employee - New rules to prevent double dipping of entitlements - Obligations [...]
Employment Law Information Webinar – Employment Law 2021 – The Challenges
Our Employment Team presented a Webinar on 11 March 2021 on Employment Law 2021 - The Challenges. It covered the following topics: - COVID Vaccinations and the Workplace - Can you direct your employees to get vaccinated? - JobKeeper Subsidy Scheme & JobKeeper Directions End [...]
Sexual Harassment & the Workplace
Amid recent growing debate over what many have described as a toxic culture for women working in Parliament House, questions are being raised about how other Australian workplaces are handling reports of sexual harassment and assault. A national survey by the Australian Human Rights Commission in [...]
Employment Law Information Webinar – Flexible Working Arrangements and General Protections Claims post COVID-19
Thank you to those who joined our Employment Law webinar today, it was a very successful session! The webinar was presented by Michael Bishop, Amelita Hensman and Ben Drysdale of our firm. The following topics were discussed: Flexible Working Arrangements - Can employers resist working [...]
Truck drivers found to be employees rather than independent contractors
The Full Federal Court recently held that two truck drivers who worked for the same business for nearly 40 years were found to be employees rather than independent contractors, despite contracts that said the opposite. This entitled the drivers to significant leave, redundancy and superannuation entitlements. [...]
Pointon Partners Employment Law & COVID-19 Webinar
Thank you to those who joined the webinar yesterday, it was a successful session! The webinar was presented by Amelita, Michael, Ben and Jess covering the following topics: The extension of power for employers to issue JobKeeper directions reducing staff hours; Redundancy generally and the [...]
Extension of power for employers to issue JobKeeper directions reducing staff hours
In our Employment Update dated 9 April 2020 we wrote about the unprecedented legislation which had been passed enabling employers eligible for JobKeeper to issue directions to staff requiring them to work reduced hours or be stood down completely. That legislation had a sunset date [...]
Workplace sexual harassment making headlines
There have been a number of high profile sexual harassment cases in the news recently and interestingly the combination of Coronavirus, working from home and the recent cases are encouraging more workplace sexual harassment complaints. Victoria’s equal opportunity Commissioner has reported that sexual harassment complaints [...]
New ways of working during the latest Victorian lockdown
As Victoria enters a new period of stage 4 restrictions, employers must consider the impact on their workplace. Pointon Partners are able to assist employers with relevant issues including stand down, COVID-specific OH&S requirements and the availability of work permits for certain industries. Reliance on [...]