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Unfair dismissal of fixed term contracts

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· Tuesday, February 4th, 2020

The actions of an employer which pays out an employee employed on a fixed term employment contract in circumstances where…

Fixed term employment contracts and the fair work system

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· Thursday, January 30th, 2020

A genuine contract of employment for a specified term, which terminates at the expiration of that term, cannot attract an…

Fixed term contracts and the fair work system

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· Monday, March 26th, 2018

It is generally well known that a fixed term contract of employment (ie one which will terminate at…

Fixed term contracts and the fair work system

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· Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018

It is generally well known that a fixed term contract of employment (ie one which will terminate at an agreed…

What is a contract of employment for a specified time?

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· Sunday, January 7th, 2018

Under the Fair Work Act, the issue of whether the coming to an end of an employee’s employment occurs by…

Unfair dismissals and fixed term employment contracts Part 3

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· Wednesday, August 30th, 2017

In two previous posts I have published commentary about the effect of fixed term contracts of employment upon the issue…

Unfair dismissals and fixed term employment contracts Part 2

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· Tuesday, August 29th, 2017

It is tolerably well established that a person whose employment has come to an end when an expressly inserted end…

Unfair dismissals and fixed term employment contracts Part 1

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· Monday, August 28th, 2017

The unfair dismissal jurisdiction of the Fair Work Commission is predicated and founded upon the notion that there has been…

So-called outer limits contracts of employment

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· Wednesday, January 11th, 2017

Fixed term contracts of employment The Explanatory Memorandum that accompanied the Fair Work Bill 2008 provides inter alia as follows….

Redundancy and fixed term contracts

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· Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016

Recently, several people including two small business proprietors have asked me whether redundancy is payable to employees who lose their…

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