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...
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The Fair Work Commission has no jurisdiction to deal with unresolved disputes under superseded enterprise agreements.
The Fair Work Commission has cleared Western Health and one of its senior physicians, Dr Clare White, of workplace bullying allegations levelled by another physician, Dr Ngoc Le, in an...
A Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission recently made some important observations about the extent to which an employee covered by the Victorian Public Service Enterprise Agreement 2016 is...
A recent decision of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Edmonds v Holmesglen Institute has clarified the scope of the prohibition against discrimination based on an employee's 'employment activity'...
Legislation has now been passed to continue the JobKeeper scheme until 29 March 2021, albeit with some reduced benefits for both employers and employees.
The High Court has today overturned last year's controversial decision of a Full Federal Court in Mondelez v AMWU [2019] FCAFC 138 (Full Court Decision) regarding how the entitlement to...
A Full Court of the Federal Court has determined that an employee who was employed as a casual is entitled to back pay for annual leave, personal/carer's leave, compassionate leave...
In our previous update regarding the announcement of JobKeeper, we noted that without legislative change it would still be necessary for employees to agree to measures to support JobKeeper, such...
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