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21.11.2021
Age is just a number: Labour hire company and placement company penalised for discriminating against prospective employee
The general protections provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) are wide-ranging in the sense that they provide protections to, and prohibit adverse action by, persons and entities beyond an employee and an employer. The provisions also ...
21.11.2021
Westpac signs Enforceable Undertaking
Westpac Banking Corporation has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsman and is back-paying thousands of employees a total of $6 million. Westpac self-reported to the Fair Work Ombudsman in April 2020 that it had ...
21.11.2021
Inside the Frontier Software cyber incident
In 2021, with so much of a payroll process linked to digital systems, the threat of a cyber security breach is a nightmare scenario for payroll professionals. This past week that nightmare became a reality for Frontier Software, as their systems were ...
14.11.2021
Payroll jobs climb as lockdowns ease
According to the ABS, payroll jobs rose by 1.3 per cent in the fortnight to 16 October, following a fall of 0.5 per cent seen the fortnight prior. Bjorn Jarvis, head of labour statistics at the ABS, said the figures coincided with lockdowns and other ...
14.11.2021
Can HR reduce a redundancy payment?
In a recent case, the Fair Work Commission considered whether a worker’s redundancy payment should be reduced given her previous employer obtained alternative employment for her. Ultimately, given the worker’s significant pay cut in her new role, the ...
14.11.2021
Let’s get flexible: Employer acted “entirely reasonably” when terminating employee who worked flexible hours
It is not uncommon for employers and employees to agree to flexible working hours, particularly in circumstances where the employee has family or other caring responsibilities. Such arrangements are best recorded in writing, setting out clear ...
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