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In a recent decision of the Fair Work Commission, the Commissioner turned to Mondelez for guidance when deciding whether a wase management company had been correctly calculating and deducting annual...
Employers are now contending with the next complex workforce management issue arising out of COVID-19 – workplace vaccination.
On 18 February 2017, a severe hailstorm passed through Sydney causing damage to parts of a residential development that was being constructed by the plaintiff building company, Rawson Homes.
A Full Court of the Federal Court has allowed an appeal by the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union against a decision imposing a total of $50,000 in penalties...
The Federal Government has today introduced the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020, an omnibus industrial relations Bill setting out several key industrial relations reforms...
New research shows that in 2020, employees could potentially be doing seven weeks of unpaid overtime over the course of the year.
A rise in litigation over recent years is placing growing pressure on Australia's court systems, leading to backlogs that can delay cases for up to years.
The Family Court has on many occasions been required to determine disputes between parents on the issue of vaccinating their children. The coronavirus vaccine, when released, is expected to enliven...
Much of the detail of the new reforms introduced by the Design & Building Practitioners Act 2020 has been left to the regulations, which are yet to be released and...
The Federal Government has hailed its recent Exposure Draft legislation to introduce a formal debt restructuring process for micro and small-to-medium companies as an adoption of US-style Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
In the recent decision of C & F Nominees Mortgage Securities Ltd v Karbotli & Ors [2020] VCC 987, the Court held that a mortgagee failed to take 'reasonable steps'...
The Federal Government is departing from the current 'one size fits all' approach in Australia's insolvency regime in anticipation of an insolvency tsunami caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
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