A recent decision of the Fair Work Commission (Commission) in Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union v Auscript Australasia Pty Ltd highlights the importance of employers complying with mandatory consultation obligations in respect of COVID-19 related redundancies. Summary In January 2020, Auscript determined to close or partially […]
Federal Parliament is likely to pass the $130 billion JobKeeper wage subsidy tomorrow in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic after the ACTU and the Labor Party indicated they would support the changes. While the full details of the legislative changes are yet to be released, the […]
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has expressed the view that it will introduce two (2) weeks’ unpaid “pandemic leave” in all modern awards in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The FWC is also proposing to allow employers and award-covered employees to agree to take up to […]
The Fair Work Commission’s changes to the annualised wages arrangements in numerous modern awards come into effect on 1 March 2020. Employers with employees covered by the modern awards listed below should review their engagement of those paid annualised salaries to ensure compliance with the changes: […]
The Federal Government has amended the Australian Human Rights Commission Regulations 1989 to provide employers with greater certainty about accepting or rejecting prospective employees based on their criminal records. This change to the regulations now sets a lower threshold for employers to lawfully decline job applicants with a […]
The full Federal Court has ruled that 12-hour shift workers are entitled to accrue 120 hours of personal/carer’s leave each year under the National Employment Standards (NES), rather than 76 hours, as argued by their employer and the Federal Industrial Relations Minister. The NES provides 10 […]
According to a briefing given to Federal Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter, the Morrison Government is expected to establish a National Labour Hire Registration Scheme in early 2020. Although the 2019/2020 budget allocation for the Fair Work Ombudsman to establish a National Labour Hire Registration Scheme […]
The High Court has struck down an AAT ruling that the Department’s dismissal of a public servant operating a Twitter account critical of the Department’s policies was unlawful on the basis of the implied freedom of political communication. Background Ms Banerji, an employee of the Department […]
The Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has considered how overtime and penalty rates should be applied in respect of casual nurses under the Nurses Award 2010 after the ANMF argued the Commission should not have approved an enterprise agreement because not all employees were […]
In February 2019, AFS Security 24/7 Pty Ltd dismissed one of its employees, a casual security guard, with a text message after two years of regular, rostered work. The text read ‘Effective immediately we no longer require your services.’ The security guard asked for an explanation […]
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