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19.09.2021
Senate passes bill to include miscarriage leave in Australia’s Fair Work Act
Employers in Australia are now required to provide employees with two days of paid bereavement leave for parents who experience a miscarriage, after a historic change to the Fair Work Act. It comes after five years of campaigning by The Pink Elephants, a ...
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 ...
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