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At long last some much needed clarity around the meaning of "casual employment".
During my 22 years working in the law, employers have always been at risk of an employee, whom they had engaged and paid as a casual, maintaining at some later time that they were actually a permanent employee under the common law...and therefore...
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Workplace bullying and harassment is a serious issue impacting many businesses across Australia and it’s been on the rise over the last few years. A study of adult workers in 2010 by the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) found that 35 per cent had suffered from some form of bullying in the workplace, in the form of being verbally...
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The high income threshold for unfair dismissals refers to the highest possible income an employee can have, unless they are covered by an award or enterprise agreement, before they are excluded from making an unfair dismissal claim against their organisation. This threshold applies under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and changes every year on...
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Workplace Investigations typically take place following one or more employees acting inappropriately, and they are becoming an increasingly challenging and time consuming problem for employers to deal with. The type of investigation, and the resources the employer allocates to resolving the issue, depends on the seriousness of the behaviour...
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The time for lodging an Unfair Dismissal Claim or a General Protections Claim is now the same, 21 days...and this should result in all the issues in dispute between an employee and employer being resolved in a timelier manner
Prior to the start of this Year, an employee who thought he/she had been unfairly dismissed had 14 days from the...
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