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Australian workplace lawyers are parochial by nature. We don’t look at international examples very often.  And given the tens...

With the growing proliferation of ‘no win no fee’ and contingency based employment litigation agents, it’s easy to presume...

Employers are required to walk a tight-rope every time they hire a new employee.   The Fair Work Provisions...

There has always been a distinction between an employment relationship at common law, defined by the terms of the...

Sally McManus threw down the gauntlet to ‘big business’ last week on behalf of the ACTU at the National...

As an industrial lawyer, it was probably a mistake logging onto social media on Thursday, in the aftermath of...

Following some emerging trends in representative conduct in the Unfair Dismissal jurisdiction in particular, the Fair Work Commission require broader powers to make...

Despite the existence of a national framework of minimum entitlements for employees, there is still a strong distinction between...

There are over 200,000 words in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).  It is longer than the New Testament....

We tend to think that the main differences between New South Wales and Victoria concern the trams, ‘hook turns’, and AFL....