Yet more changes are ahead for employers as key elements of the Federal Labor Government's Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing the Loopholes No 2) Act 2024 (the Act) take effect on 26 August 2024....more
8/23/2024
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As we find ourselves in the new financial year, a number of the key financial thresholds relating to employees have increased. From 1 July 2024, the national minimum wage has increased by 3.75% to AU$24.10 per hour....more
Australia welcomes new business and foreign investment by providing a strong economy, a stable political environment and a skilled and talented workforce. Our comprehensive guide to Doing Business in Australia has been...more
4/19/2024
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The Federal Labor Government (Government) has completed its third tranche of workplace relations reform with the recent passage through Federal Parliament of its Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No. 2) Bill...more
2/26/2024
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The Federal Government recently introduced the latest in a series of workplace reforms into Federal Parliament. The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 (the Bill), proposes further amendments to the...more
9/18/2023
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As we approach 1 July 2023, a number of the key financial thresholds relating to employees will increase. We have prepared a handy key thresholds table for the 2023/2024 financial year for employers. Click here to view the...more
In our recent alert, we set out some of the key upcoming changes in Australian employment law. Since then, there has been further progression as the Labor Government implements its workplace agenda. We have set out a...more
Earlier this week, the Federal Government introduced the Fair Work Legislation (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023 (Cth) (Bill) into the Parliament of Australia (Parliament). The reforms proposed by the Bill focus on...more
A lot has happened in Australian employment law over the last few months, and you may be forgiven for having missed some of the changes that were passed just prior to Christmas....more
On 4 November 2022 we published a summary of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill 2022 (Cth) (Bill) as it was introduced into Parliament. You are able to access that summary here. In passing the Bill, Parliament made a...more
The Federal Government recently introduced the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill 2022 (Cth) (Bill) into Parliament, which proposes to amend the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (Act) and the operation of the Fair Work Commission (FWC). ...more
On 21 May 2022, the Australian Federal Government changed with the election of the Australian Labour Party. During the election campaign, the new government proposed to conduct a summit to bring together employer, business,...more
As we approach 1 July 2022, a number of the key financial thresholds relating to employees will increase. We have prepared a handy key thresholds table for the 2022/2023 financial year for employers. From 1 July 2022, the...more
On Friday 1 October 2021, an announcement was made by the Premier of Victoria that all Authorised Workers will be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine to continue working on-site. The Directions which give effect to this...more
CASUAL CONVERSION – TIME TO BE READY TO MAKE OFFERS - Earlier this year, the Australian Federal government introduced broad changes to laws relating to casual employment which included a requirement for employers to offer...more
NATIONAL INQUIRY INTO SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN AUSTRALIAN WORKPLACES - It has been a long journey to bring the issue of sexual harassment in workplaces to the forefront of legislative change, commencing with the announcement of a...more
As we reach 1 July 2021, there is a lot happening in the area of employment-related legislation, including award and minimum wage increases, increases to superannuation and the annual change to the high income threshold....more
The Morrison Government's first major workplace reform Bill was introduced into Federal Parliament on 9 December 2020. The Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 (the Omnibus Bill)...more
The Coronavirus Economic Response Package (JobKeeper Payments) Amendment Bill 2020 was passed by Federal Parliament, which has resulted in further changes to the JobKeeper Payment scheme including changes to the flexibility...more
A 4-1 majority of the High Court of Australia (with Gaegler J dissenting) has overturned the controversial Mondelez decision, confirming what has been the widespread understanding of the operation of personal/carer's leave...more
Our last JobKeeper guide covered the Australian Government's announcement to extend the scheme for six months beyond the original end date of 28 September 2020 (the so called JobKeeper 2.0). ...more
Should I be standing my employees down or issuing a JobKeeper direction When this all started in March, many employers had never contemplated a stand down and most had not heard of Section 524 of the Fair Work Act....more
Victoria has introduced the Occupational Health and Safety (COVID-19 Incident Notification) Regulations 2020 (Notification Regulation) requiring an employer to notify WorkSafe Victoria immediately of the following...more
*This information is accurate as of 10:00 A.M. Tuesday 22 July 2020 and is subject to change as this situation evolves. The Australian Government announced on 21 July 2020 that the JobKeeper scheme will be extended for six...more
*This information is accurate as of 4.00 pm Tuesday 30 June 2020 and is subject to change as this situation evolves. For many of our clients the past three months passed by in a blur as they attempted to get their head around...more