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Unfair dismissal; churches and ministers

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· Saturday, August 15th, 2020

The issue whether the legal nature of the relationship between a church and a minster or pastor in Australia is…

Employment contracts; what formality is required?

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· Monday, May 11th, 2020

An application for an unfair dismissal remedy was brought by an applicant who did cleaning work at the respondent’s hostel…

What is an employment relationship? The Uber Eats case

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· Tuesday, April 21st, 2020

The Fair Work Commission, in an important appeal, has held that an Uber Eats operator was not an employee, and…

Denied contractual benefits in WA employment law

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· Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

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 Western Australia

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· Tuesday, May 14th, 2019

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

Posted by Fair Work Legal Advice

· Wednesday, August 29th, 2018

What is an employment contract? Many people who call me up for advice, both employers and employees, deny when I…

Work experience/ internship or employment?

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· Tuesday, October 31st, 2017

The Fair Work Commission recently dealt with an unfair dismissal case brought by a young law graduate who had been…

Employment relationship?; the control test explained

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· Wednesday, April 19th, 2017

The most fundamental and generally important fair work issue is whether the relationship between parties is that of employment…

Unsigned employment contracts; what is the effect?

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· Thursday, April 13th, 2017

I am sometimes asked (most often when an employee is seeking to evade the effect of a restraint of trade)…

The concept of “disguised employment”

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· Monday, February 27th, 2017

Contracts of service vs contracts for services; “It is important to bear in mind that there can be no employment…

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