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12.09.2021
Personal fines for cocktail bar operators
The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured court penalties against the former operators of a rooftop cocktail bar. The Federal Circuit and Family Court has imposed a $15,624 penalty against Don Haris Kumarage, the former operator of The Red Hummingbird bar, and ...
12.09.2021
Long service leave entitlements refused for employees who worked overseas
The Court of Appeal in Victoria ruled that international IT company Infosys Technologies Limited (Infosys) had no obligation to pay long service leave to employees who claimed the entitlement after they worked in Australia for less than three years but ...
12.09.2021
Gold Coast employees underpaid by $215k Fair Work finds, two people owed tens of thousands
Hundreds of workers on the Gold Coast have been underpaid by their employers, according to the Fair Work Ombudsman. Key points: Dozens of businesses have been found breaching workplace laws on the Gold Coast $215,000 in underpaid wages has been given ...
12.09.2021
Direction needed: Court finds multiple breaches of general protections provisions
The Federal Circuit Court of Australia (the Court) recently ruled on an application brought by an employee alleging that three respondents had engaged in breaches of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act), including sham contracting and dismissing the ...
05.09.2021
The legal risks for employees working remotely
On the day that we walked away from our offices to begin our home/life work experience, many of us believed it would be temporary. Little did we know that the pandemic would bring major permanent changes to our places of employment and the work locations ...
05.09.2021
Google pushes back return-to-office plan to January 2022
Google will continue offering its employees the option to work from home until next year amid the spread of the Delta variant, its chief executive announced. Sundar Pichai said on Tuesday that its global voluntary return-to-office policy will remain ...