Articles
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13 July 2012
Workplace Law & Culture
New financial year - new employment thresholds
A new financial year usually brings minor, but noteworthy, changes which impact on employment rights and entitlements.
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22 May 2012
Workplace Law & Culture
Work health and safety - are you liable? The High Court speaks
The new work health and safety laws are a hot topic for many businesses.
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11 April 2012
Workplace Law & Culture
The New Workplace Safety Laws: We Have Lifted Off!
For the first three months of this year, it?s been business as usual following the commencement on 1 January 2012 of the new NSW Work Health and Safety Act 2011.
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01 November 2011
Workplace Law & Culture
The Qantas industrial dispute reveals flaws in the Fair Work barg…
The unions called the proposed lock out a deplorable act.
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01 September 2011
Workplace Law & Culture
Work Health and Safety Reforms: NSW employers must prepare for th…
Businesses should review work safety systems to align with the new laws.
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24 March 2011
Workplace Law & Culture
A Fair Work Miscellany - awards, workers compensation, holiday en…
There is a great deal that can be said about the Fair Work Act and the new system, but for now, here is our miscellany of the Fair Work Act, and some thoughts:
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17 December 2010
Workplace Law & Culture
Paid Parental Leave - coming ready or not in 2011
What is it? The Paid Parental Leave scheme is a government-funded entitlement for working parents who are primary carers of children born or adopted from 1 January 2011. Parental Leave Pay is paid for a maximum of 18 weeks, and is a taxable payment p…
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09 November 2010
Workplace Law & Culture
To accrue or not to accrue? That is the $36 million question on a…
In 2008-09 weekly compensation payments in NSW exceeded $468 million.
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02 September 2010
Workplace Law & Culture
Employment law: Is it fair to dismiss an injured worker for faile…
How much rehabilitation is enough? What about suitable duties? Reasonable adjustment?
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20 August 2010
Workplace Law & Culture
Workplace rights under the Fair Work Act: what we've learnt to da…
Some of the most talked about new provisions in the Fair Work Act 2009 are the "workplace rights" protections.
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07 July 2010
Workplace Law & Culture
A Year In Review: Good Faith Bargaining under the Fair Work Act
It has now been a year since the good faith bargaining provisions in the Federal Fair Work Act 2009 commenced operation.
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08 February 2010
Workplace Law & Culture
Is there an absolute obligation to guarantee safety in the workpl…
The duty to provide a safe workplace extends to hasty, careless, inadvertent and inattentive employees.
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22 September 2009
Workplace Law & Culture
Change in the nature of employment should lead to a change in you…
Too often when employment ends bitterly, there is a scrap for every last dollar owed and then some more.
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07 September 2009
Workplace Law & Culture
Awards under Fair Work: Modern Awards or Modern Headache?
On 2 September 2009 one of the final jigsaw pieces in the new Fair Work system was revealed by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
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13 July 2009
Workplace Law & Culture
Fair Work Act 2009 comes into force
The Fair Work Act 2009 has now come into force (as of 1 July 2009).
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17 June 2009
Work Health & Safety
Behind the veil of self-employment - how to calculate true residu…
The calculation of a self-employed worker's entitlements under section 40 is never straightforward.
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30 March 2009
Work Health & Safety
Jurisdiction of the Workers Compensation Commission: when is it a…
In this bulletin we review an interesting Court of Appeal decision which has implications for the jurisdiction of the Workers Compensation Commission.
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11 February 2009
Workplace Law & Culture
Reflecting on Forward with Fairness - the Fair Work Bill and how…
Labor?s new workplace relations system is at our doorstep.