May 4, 2019
A recent article reported in the Age (1 May 2019 written by Madeleine Heffernan), showed how prevalent casual and fixed term employment is in the Tertiary Sector....Read More
February 2, 2019
Schools across the nation are being urged by the Federal Government to sign up to the National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence (NDA) on 15 March 2019. This is an important initiative for our future generation to become involved in stamping out bullying at...Read More
December 26, 2018
A UK Superior Court knocks back the Uber independent contractor model ( pending any further appeal by Uber). The decision affirmed an earlier Tribunal finding that Uber drivers were workers. The decision comes just over a month after the Fair Work Commission found a...Read More
November 21, 2018
Foodora employee, Mr Klooger, was found last week by the Fair Work Commission to be an employee and not a contractor despite sub-contracting his work to other food delivery workers (Mr Klooger v Foodora Australia Pty Ltd).1 Mr Klooger was engaged as a delivery worker...Read More
October 30, 2018
Often employees enquire about whether their position is redundant when their employer changes their role. The basic amount of redundancy pay that an employee is entitled to is set out in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).¹ Depending on whether an enterprise agreement...Read More
