Australian workplace lawyers are parochial by nature. We don’t look at international examples very often. And given the tens...
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Sep 2018
Category: Editor’s Choice
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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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Jul 2018
No Win, No Fee: The seven must-ask questions for Employee litigants
With the growing proliferation of ‘no win no fee’ and contingency based employment litigation agents, it’s easy to presume...
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Jul 2018
Why method of dismissal needs to be reviewed by the Commission
According to a recent case of Ms Anita Cachia v Scobel Pty Ltd (2018) FWC 2648, the Fair Work Commission...
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Jul 2018
#TimesUp on inappropriate workplace behaviours
The Fair Work Commission is showing little tolerance for inappropriate workplace behaviour in the #metoo era. A number of Unfair...
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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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Oct 2017
Dismissals ‘R’ Us: A New Trend in ‘shake down’ litigation putting commercial...
Following some emerging trends in representative conduct in the Unfair Dismissal jurisdiction in particular, the Fair Work Commission require broader powers to make...
