The Fair Work Ombudsman has recently published a new version of the Fair Work Information Statement (FWIS).

It has had a bit of an overhaul to better set out the different entitlements of full-time, part- time and casual employees and to add recent legislative amendments with respect to casual employees.

All employers are required to provide this to every new employee whether covered by an award or enterprise agreement or neither (ie award-free people including executive, professional and managerial staff) before or as soon as possible after commencement. You might want to include this in your offer of employment or onboarding processes.

To not do so is a breach of National Employment Standards and can result in a penalty.

You can download the new FWIS at here.

Also a reminder that there is now also a Casual Employment Information Statement (CEIS) that must be given to all casual employees. This clearly sets out what casual employment is, what rights for casual conversion apply and what options casual employees have if they are aggrieved by a decision by their employer not to agree to their request for casual conversion.

You can download the CEIS here.

If you fail to provide either of these to an employee who is supposed to receive them, that is a breach of National Employment Standards and can result in a penalty.

You might want to include these statements in your offers of employment or onboarding processes just to make sure that it happens.