Over the past couple of years, there have been lots of changes in employment conditions and related legislation, regulations and modern awards. Do you have a regular review of your employment documentation to ensure that your employment contracts and HRM policies and procedures are consistent with current workplace relations requirements? Can you demonstrate as an […]
We recently launched our new Better Workplace Projects and we are getting terrific feedback on the impact like: “The session was excellent – great buy in from everyone and really positive feedback afterwards.” “The team and I loved the session and felt very positive and inspired”. Why are they having this impact? It’s fresh thinking […]
There has been a lot of activity around casual employment over the past year or so – in the courts, in the Fair Work Commission and in regulation by the Federal Government. What we aim to do in this article is to dispel some of the myths that create confusion and concern and to offer […]
Over the past few months, there has been a succession of changes in provisions of modern awards and the Fair Work Act relative to family and domestic violence. In this article, our aim is to provide you with a sense of how they come together and what that means in terms of your legal obligations […]
Do you find that the classification structures in the modern awards that apply to your business don’t make sense or don’t fit your business operations very well or, in some cases, are just not easy to understand? In many cases, you would be absolutely right to think so because they are, in the main, flawed […]
A full bench of the Fair Work Commission has ordered the variation of all modern awards to include a “Requests for flexible working arrangements” clause with effect from 1 December 2018. These requests have to date been regulated under National Employment Standards which essentially provide the ability for eligible employees with 12 months’ continuous service […]
The Fair Work Ombudsman has just released a report into investigations that it has been conducting into workplace relations compliance in the “Harvest Trail” or horticulture industry. The particulars are: 836 investigations, involving 444 growers and 194 labour hire contractors across all states in Australia and the Northern Territory. $1,022,698 in underpaid wages and entitlements […]
The Fair Work Commission has varied the penalty rates payable to casual employees in the retail industry for work performed on Saturdays and after 6.00 pm on weekdays. The variations are being introduced in phases with the first increases taking effect from 1 November 2018. The increases for weekdays after 6.00 pm are: (i) From […]
The Fair Work Commission has varied the majority of modern awards (89 of them) in respect of their termination of employment provisions. Under these awards, from 1 November 2018: If an employee who is at least 18 years old does not give the period of notice required, then the employer may deduct from wages due […]
Did you know that an employee of a business with 15 or more employees and with 10 or more years’ service gets: 4 weeks less redundancy pay than an employee with 9 years’ service 2 weeks less than an employee with 8 years’ service and 1 week less than an employee with 7 years’ service? […]