Last Tuesday, October 23, 2018, union rallies were held in Melbourne and Sydney in support of the Australian Council...
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Oct 2018
Category: News & Commentary
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Sep 2018
California’s ‘ABC’ test for Independent Contractors – some key lessons for Australia
Australian workplace lawyers are parochial by nature. We don’t look at international examples very often. And given the tens...
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Aug 2018
Will the Fair Work Act protect a Cricket Australia employee’s right to tweet her political
Earlier in August, Fairfax broke the story of a Cricket Australia employee, Angela Williamson, allegedly sacked for criticising via...
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Aug 2018
Playing with fire: The real implications of Shorten’s proposal to reverse penalty rate
In May 2016 Bill Shorten said, speaking to the ABC, that a government proposing to legislate penalty rate outcomes...
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Aug 2018
Dismissals of badly behaved employees declared unfair by Fair Work Commission
Recent decisions by the Fair Work Commission have emphasised the need to afford employees procedural fairness throughout the termination...
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Jun 2018
Refusal to Employ
Employers are required to walk a tight-rope every time they hire a new employee. The Fair Work Provisions...
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May 2018
Managing workplace relationships: What we can learn from Barnaby Joyce
Everyone’s favourite Kiwi/Australian politician Barnaby Joyce has been in the spotlight again recently due to his upcoming interview with...
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Apr 2018
Junior pay rates in modern awards: Are young people being ripped off?
A “fair go all around” has long been an underlying principle in the Australian industrial relations system. However, under...
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Apr 2018
Rugby Australia’s inclusion policy vs. Folau’s freedom of speech
Earlier this month, high profile rugby star Israel Folau posted some highly offensive comments on Instagram stating that gay...
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Mar 2018
5 inconvenient truths about ‘casual conversion’
Sally McManus threw down the gauntlet to ‘big business’ last week on behalf of the ACTU at the National...
