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: Law
8
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...
4
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...
24
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...
10
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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May 2018
Is the word “bullying” being overused in the workplace?
There is no doubt that workplace bullying can be a serious matter for employees and employers. It can lead...
17
May 2018
Traversing the ‘Outer Limits’: the Fair Work Commission’s Jurisdiction over the employment...
There has always been a distinction between an employment relationship at common law, defined by the terms of the...
27
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...
29
Jan 2018
The Sydney Rail Strike – why the Fair Work Commission had no choice.
As an industrial lawyer, it was probably a mistake logging onto social media on Thursday, in the aftermath of...
30
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...
