Australian law has developed a number of legal tests which are of assistance to the courts and tribunals when determining…
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The issue whether the legal nature of the relationship between a church and a minster or pastor in Australia is…
An application for an unfair dismissal remedy was brought by an applicant who did cleaning work at the respondent’s hostel…
The Fair Work Commission, in an important appeal, has held that an Uber Eats operator was not an employee, and…
In the recent decision of Richards v Nicoletti [2016] WAIRC 00941, the WAIRC Full Bench has determined that there is no scope…
Employment contract claims in the WA Industrial Relations Commission In addition to its powers to deal with certain unfair dismissal…
What is an employment contract? Many people who call me up for advice, both employers and employees, deny when I…
The Fair Work Commission recently dealt with an unfair dismissal case brought by a young law graduate who had been…
The most fundamental and generally important fair work issue is whether the relationship between parties is that of employment…
I am sometimes asked (most often when an employee is seeking to evade the effect of a restraint of trade)…
