Following the second wave of COVID-19 infections in Victoria in July 2020, the Victorian Government swiftly imposed a duty on employers to minimise the risk of COVID-19 transmission at Victorian...
The annus horribilis of 2020 saw a number of important cases handed down which involve and have implications for various parts of the Victorian public sector.
On 1 July 2020, Fire Rescue Victoria came into being, fundamentally changing the structure of Victoria's fire services and amalgamating parts of the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board and...
The Australian government requires certain entities to publish annual statements on a public online register, setting out the risk of modern slavery they have identified in their supply chain and...
Lawyers from Lander & Rogers' Workplace Relations & Safety team have contributed the Australia chapter in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's 2021 Asia Employment Bulletin.
The Fair Work Commission in the matter of Harris v Meadowbrook Golf Club t/a Meadowbrook Golf Club recently dismissed an application for an unfair dismissal remedy made by a trainee...
In a recent decision of the Fair Work Commission, the Commissioner turned to Mondelez for guidance when deciding whether a wase management company had been correctly calculating and deducting annual...
Employers are now contending with the next complex workforce management issue arising out of COVID-19 – workplace vaccination.
A Full Court of the Federal Court has allowed an appeal by the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union against a decision imposing a total of $50,000 in penalties...
The Federal Government has today introduced the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020, an omnibus industrial relations Bill setting out several key industrial relations reforms...
New research shows that in 2020, employees could potentially be doing seven weeks of unpaid overtime over the course of the year.
The Fair Work Commission has no jurisdiction to deal with unresolved disputes under superseded enterprise agreements.
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