26 September 2025
Record at Your Own Risk: FWC’s Stance on Covert Recordings in the Workplace
There have been many occasions where employees have secretly recorded workplace conversations, meetings, or counselling ...
19 September 2025
Employers don’t have to put up with toxic bullying claims
FWC (Applicant (AB2025/40) [2025] FWC 2459 (22 August 2025)) recently dismissed a worker’s "absurd" and "baseless" claim...
12 September 2025
Is this the end to Annualised Salaries for Award covered employees?
Possibly? The Federal Court recently delivered its much anticipated judgment in what everyone is calling the Woolworths...
05 September 2025
Federal Court considers Sex-Based Harassment
In Magar v Khan [2025] FCA 874, the Federal Court has, for the first time, considered the scope of sex-based harassment ...
29 August 2025
Can employers use psychosocial risk management processes for WHS Undertakings?
Yes. SafeWork NSW recently accepted a $700K+ enforceable WHS Undertaking from an employer, in lieu of prosecution arisi...
27 August 2025
Is the Proposed Penalty Rate and Overtime Bill the end for flexibility clauses in Awards, salary offset clauses in employment contracts and all in rates in Enterprise Agreements?
No. The proposed Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 was recently tabled in Parliamen...
20 August 2025
Employers need to understand the causes of Workplace Incivility to really address it
Incivility in the workplace, such as eye-rolling and sarcastic remarks, might seem a ‘one off’ or ‘not worth making a fu...
13 August 2025
Did the High Court just force me to replace my contractors with employees in a redundancy situation?
No. But it is still a matter that employers will need to show they considered and were unable to reasonably implement. ...
06 August 2025
Requests for Flexible Work Arrangements – Higher threshold for Employees
In Paul Collins v Intersystems Australia Pty Ltd [2025] FWC 1976 FWC made it clear that employees who make requests for ...
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