Author: Jacob Reddie
Will religious organisations continue to receive exemptions to discriminate under the proposed Religious Discrimination Act?
Following the Coalition’s surprise election victory last month, religious discrimination laws appear to be one of the first issues to be considered by the new federal parliament. Attorney-General Christian Porter […]
FWC Uses New Legislation to Approve Enterprise Agreement Despite Procedural Errors
The Fair Work Commission has utilised recent changes to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) to approve an enterprise agreement despite minor technical and procedural errors. There are strict requirements […]
Unnecessary and unconstitutional? The Practical and Legal Problems With the Criminalisation of Wage Theft
The deliberate underpayment of employee entitlements, such as wages, is not currently a criminal offence in Australia (despite the misleading use of the term by some). However, that is about […]
The misleading and inaccurate use of the term “wage theft”
Wage theft is one of the flavours of the month in the industrial relations space at the moment with repeated calls to introduce tough criminal penalties for those employers who […]
Criminal offences outside of work: Can an employee be suspended?
Can an employer indefinitely suspend an employee who has been charged with a serious criminal offence for conduct that occurred outside of work? That is the question facing the St […]
Disrupting the disrupters: what are the consequences of the Foodora ruling for the gig economy?
Last month, the Fair Work Commission handed down a much-anticipated decision in Klooger v Foodora Australia Pty Ltd [2018] FWC 6836 (Klooger). Josh Klooger, a Foodora rider, had made an […]