Articles
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21 November 2008
Workplace Law & Culture
Deputy Prime Minister Announces New Workplace Laws
We discuss other important announcements made that affect your business and employment relationships.
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19 September 2008
Work Health & Safety
From the gatekeeper to the Court of Appeal - the role of the Work…
In this bulletin we review two recent Court of Appeal decisions which look at the roles of the WCC Registrar.
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04 August 2008
Workplace Law & Culture
The importance of comprehensive training & safety regime - manage…
The Industrial Court of NSW recently dismissed Occupational Health and Safety charges brought against a director and a manager of a corporation.
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11 July 2008
Workplace Law & Culture
And then there were 10 ..... what employers need to know about th…
Like the AFPCS, it will not be possible to contract out of the NES.
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25 June 2008
Work Health & Safety
Work injury damages threshold - recent case highlights the import…
For a worker to recover work injury damages there must be 15% whole person impairment (WPI) or more in respect of the work injury.
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06 March 2008
Work Health & Safety
WCC gives short shrift to WorkCover guideline on reactivated indu…
The guideline outlines a process for the investigation and determination of these claims with no lawyer involvement.
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05 February 2008
Work Health & Safety
Workers compensation: pain and suffering threshold and multiple i…
We discuss Department of Juvenile Justice v. Edmed [2008] NSW WCC PD 6 (18 January 2008).
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10 December 2007
Work Health & Safety
Court says no to NSW police officers' workers compensation claim…
Both officers alleged Railcorp and State Rail owed them a duty of care under section 32 of the NSW Civil Liability Act 2002.
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30 November 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
Forward with Fairness - but where to? What will the new governmen…
Now that the Labor Party has won the election, what will this mean for workplace relations in your business?
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07 August 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
Employers, lock up your secrets! What to do when ex-employees use…
An old Arabian proverb observes that a secret is like a dove: when it leaves one?s hand, it takes wing.
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20 July 2007
Work Health & Safety
Death of a worker at a workplace social function not in the cours…
We discuss Haider v JP Morgan Holdings Aust Limited trading as JP Morgan Operations Australia Limited (2007) NSW.
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10 July 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
Stop Press - More documents, more dollars: new worksheets & incre…
The long awaited Workplace Relations Fact Sheet has now arrived and from 1 October 2007 minimum wage rates are increased.
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01 June 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
Employment law: testing times for Work Choices
Work Choices - the legislation that dare not speak its name.
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19 April 2007
Work Health & Safety
Workers compensation: High Court decision on employer's obligatio…
In this bulletin we look at a decision of the High Court that may have a significant impact on employers and insurers and employer?s obligations to take out 'State insurance?.
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30 March 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
New laws about independent contractors - more certainty for emplo…
On 1 March 2007 the new Federal Independent Contractors Act came into operation, continuing the Federal Government?s clean sweep of workplace relations.
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22 February 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
Changes to workplace laws introduced - January 2007
2007 begins with some new workplace laws, some answers, and some solutions in the transition to Work Choices.
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05 December 2006
Workplace Law & Culture
Celebrations turned sour - sexual harrassment at the workplace Ch…
The following scenario, with names changed to protect the guilty, illustrates the countless liabilities that may arise from a seemingly harmless staff celebration.
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14 November 2006
Workplace Law & Culture
High Court decision on Work Choices sees State industrial relatio…
After a hard fought six day hearing in May the High Court has just handed down its decision on the most important Constitutional case in decades