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 [...]
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 webinar was recorded, should 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 on Employers to offer certain [...]
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 28 March 2021 - What [...]
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 2018 found 33 per cent of [...]
