We consider what the major employment law stories for 2016 were and what their impact might be as we head into the new year. Parental leave Leading up to the election, the Coalition scrapped Tony Abbott’s maternity leave scheme which promised that mothers would be paid their full income for 6 months. The policy at […]
As we come to the end of 2016 and approach Christmas, an exciting time of the working year, as staff are treated to workplace Christmas parties and often time off work over the Christmas and New Year period, some businesses find themselves in tricky situations: everything from misbehaving employees to disputes over annual leave rights […]
A recent opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald raised the issue of sport conversation in the workplace, emphasising its ability to exclude as sport can be significant within a culture, but not necessarily for all individuals. While this may be true, it is difficult to argue that sport should – and more importantly can […]