Today I am publishing an extract from a recent Fair Work Commission unfair dismissal decision which sets out the legal…
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Consistent with the approach of the Fair Work Commission to amend numerous modern awards to assist employers manage the implications…
The issue whether a modern award or enterprise agreement applies to a job is of profound importance in employment law….
Although enterprise agreements are in a sense a statutory instrument, by which I mean that a breach can constitute a…
The Fair Work Act expressly requires the Fair Work Commission in an unfair dismissal case to “take into account” a…
From 1 July 2020 the high income threshold under the Fair Work Act is $153,600 and the new filing fee…
The Fair Work Act provides for statutory redundancy payments to be made to an employee if his or her employment…
Although the Fair Work Commission is not bound to apply the rules of evidence and formality which are followed in…
Quite commonly, an employer will dismiss an employee on grounds of redundancy, and to the employee’s horror might then advertise…
Although a failure by an employer to offer a true casual employee shifts of work in economic stress may have…
