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03.03.2019
Who’s the Boss? Employee loses redundancy pay after refusing other acceptable employment
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has reduced an employee’s entitlement to redundancy pay to nil after an employer successfully argued that it obtained ‘other acceptable employment’ for the employee, which the employee had refused. Under section 120 of the ...
24.02.2019
We are looking for the next superstar to join our team in Sydney
Who are we? Australian Payroll Association is reimagining the future of payroll. Payroll has never seen a period of so much change or uncertainty. With regulation and technology seeming to move on a daily basis, both organisations and professionals are ...
24.02.2019
Answers to accessorial liability questions from Athena Koelmeyer
Recently, our Managing Director, Athena Koelmeyer presented a webinar for Payroll HQ‘s Learning Lab subscribers on accessorial liability under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act). Here are some of your questions with answers from Athena. What is best ...
10.02.2019
Terminating employees due to long absences: What you need to know
Section 351 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) prohibits employers from taking adverse action against an employee because of the person’s physical or mental disability. The Federal Court’s decision in Robinson v Western Union has caused consternation among ...
10.02.2019
Redundancy pay exception – ordinary and customary turnover of labour
Employers engaged in contracting sectors – such as providing outsourced services to third parties under contracts for specified periods (e.g. catering, cleaning or maintenance contracts) – cannot assume that they will not have to make redundancy payments ...
09.12.2018
In conTEXT – FWC finds employee not dismissed by text message
Under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), an employee is only protected from unfair dismissal if the employee is actually dismissed. Section 386 of the FW Act sets out the meaning of “dismissed” for this purpose and states that a person has been dismissed if ...
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