Pointon Partners are pleased to have acted on the sale of Greg Tucker & Associates Pty Ltd (GTA) to New York Stock Exchange listed Stantec Inc. Melbourne based GTA operates a traffic engineering business and Stantec is a professional services company in the design and consulting industry. The deal was [...]
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 from home requests in the [...]
Thank you to those who joined the webinar last week, it was a fun and invigorating session! The webinar was presented by Michael Bishop and Ben Drysdale of our firm and featured renowned golf course architect Mike Cocking of OCM Golf. The following topics were discussed: the worldwide work of [...]
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. The Court considered the “totality [...]
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 impact of COVID-19; and Working [...]
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 of 27 September 2020. The [...]
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 JobKeeper powers For those employers [...]
An employer that issued a JobKeeper enabling stand down direction, reducing an employee’s hours by 40 per cent has been ordered by the Fair Work Commission to amend the reduction to just 20 per cent. The Commission held that the direction was unreasonable because of its “overwhelmingly precautionary” nature.¹ JobKeeper [...]
Legislation passed by Parliament last night amended the Fair Work Act to give new powers to employers that are eligible for JobKeeper subsidies. The powers include the ability to direct employees to work reduced hours or days, undertake alternate duties and work at an alternate location. JobKeeper generally The JobKeeper payment [...]
The Coronavirus has sent shockwaves through the Australian economy with many large employers taking steps to stand down employees on no pay for a temporary indefinite period or bring employment to an end completely on account of redundancy. Unfair dismissal Many employers understandably see the termination of some employees as [...]
