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Being a Small Business is no Excuse

Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Fat Lie

Are Customer Surveys an effective Performance Assessment Tool?

What are your work entitlements during natural disasters and emergencies?

Why Mental Health is an Employer’s Issue

Author: Brian Powles

Brian is an employment lawyer, who has had many years experience in employment and business strategy. Formerly an award winning chef and restaurateur, he built two successful restaurants from scratch, and has advised numerous other business owners on employment, change management, leadership, and adapting to technology. Contact him here.

To text or not to text? That is the question.

Technology has fundamentally altered the way in which we interact. Five billion people use text messages globally every day.  Socially, it is one of our primary ways of interacting. Staggeringly, […]

July 8, 2019July 16, 2019 Brian Powles News & Commentary

Fingerprint Scanning: A lawful and reasonable direction?

The Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission this week held that an employee was unfairly dismissed for refusing to follow the employee’s direction to log in and out of […]

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 Brian Powles Editor's Choice, Law, News & Commentary

Fake News: Who are the real victims of political misinformation?

In the era of fake news, modern society has never seen such high levels of political misinformation. Whether it has been the Brexiteers‘ guarantees of improbable prosperity for an independent […]

April 24, 2019May 3, 2019 Brian Powles News & Commentary

Why employment needs rules: Recent stories from Sport

The employment relationship is one of contract.  Without a contract, there can be no employment. However, society has long recognised a need for more than merely a contract to govern […]

March 10, 2019March 11, 2019 Brian Powles Editor's Choice, Opinion, Sports Law

Timely Reminders from the Fair Work Commission: The Five categories of employees with access to ‘flexibilty’

In a recent decision from the full bench of the Fair Work Commission, it was held that an employer lacked a reasonable basis for refusing an employee’s request for flexible […]

February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 Brian Powles Law, News & Commentary, Recent Cases

Foodora Update

Late last year the Fair Work Commission made the landmark decision of Klooger v Foodora Australia Pty Ltd [2018] FWC 6836 that found the Foodora driver was an employee, rather […]

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 Brian Powles Update

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