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JobKeeper ends in March 2021Â
The Federal Government's JobKeeper scheme is due to be entirely phased out from 29 March 2021. Here we provide an update to our previous Insight in relation to the changes to the JobKeeper scheme. ...
Balancing compliance and enforcement with viability and recovery
The latest guidance from the FWO reiterates the importance of proactively reviewing and improving workplace relations systems to ensure they are fit for purpose. ...
OAIC releases new privacy guidelines for employers in response to spread of COVID-19
Employers should collect, use and disclose as little information as is reasonably necessary to prevent and manage the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. This includes taking the temperature of employees and visitors entering the workplace for the limited purpose of preventing or managing COVID-19 risks in the workplace (provided that as little information as is reasonably necessary should be collected for that purpose). ...
COVID-19: a work health and safety perspective
The progression of COVID-19 continues at pace and businesses are facing an array of challenges and difficult decisions. While there are a number of issues for businesses to work through at this time, this article touches on the key work health and safety (WHS) duties employers need to be aware of. ...
Make no mistake (lest you are sacked): FWC rules on safety incident dismissal
The Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission decided that a crane operator's sacking for a 'significant' safety incident was a fair and proportionate response, despite a working relationship of almost four decades. ...
Summary dismissal for theft found to be unfair
A recent decision of the Fair Work Commission has highlighted the importance of ensuring that the decision to summarily terminate an employee's employment is proportionate to their misconduct. ...
A cautionary tale – let sleeping employees lie
A recent Fair Work Commission decision has confirmed that procedural deficiencies will render a dismissal unfair even where the dismissal involves serious misconduct. ...
TNFD Recommendations to prompt a step change in nature risk management and disclosure
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures recommendations (the TNFD Recommendations) provide a means to standardise nature-related risk management and reporting, and to capitalise on nature-related opportunities. ...
Whistling in the wind: clarification on the limited retrospective application of the corporate and tax whistleblower protection regime
The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has unanimously determined that the updated whistleblower protections that came into effect on 1 July 2019 do not apply to detrimental conduct engaged ...
Proposed amendments to Fair Work Act
In this Insight, we explore the key reforms proposed by the Bill and offer recommended steps you can take now to prepare should the changes become law. ...