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 ...
29 July 2025
Employer uses contractual term to enforce attendance at fitness for work (FFW) assessment
In (Mr Bertus Moers v The Trustee For Williamson Family Trust [2025] FWC 1344 (14 May 2025)) FWC confirmed that an emplo...
22 July 2025
NSW Government proposes significant changes to Psychological Injuries and application of Workers Compensation Laws
The NSW government has released an exposure draft to amend its workers compensation legislation which will in summary pr...
15 July 2025
Another court decision to really upset your payroll staff!
In a previous article we provided an early notification that courts were appearing to be taking a different approach to ...
07 July 2025
FWC confirms HSR’s powers are not unlimited when it comes to safety matters
In (McCabe v UGL Engineering Pty Ltd [2025] FWC 1478 (29 May 2025)) FWC recently found a HSR who unilaterally shut down ...
01 July 2025
Can you afford not to manage Psychosocial Hazards?
No - according to the NSW Government who in its recent report to address the sustainability of the workers compensation ...
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