Casual, contract & contingent work (406 items)

A worker has failed to convince a tribunal that he wasn't sacked for his code of conduct breaches, but rather because he'd disclosed his mental health conditions to his manager.

The Fair Work Commission has expressed a provisional view that a casual should be converted to permanent part-time employment, finding the employer was essentially unable not to offer him work.

The Fair Work Commission's landmark casual conversion ruling has implications for all organisations that engage casual labour, and its circumstances would likely have "tripped up" many employers, according to a lawyer.

An employer has to convert a casual employee to permanent part-time employment, after a landmark ruling on the Federal Government's new 'employee choice' provisions.

The Fair Work Commission has made its first Minimum Standards Order, covering 'employee-like workers'.

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The Fair Work Commission has made regulated labour hire arrangement orders for a warehouse where direct and on-hire employees already receive the same pay, and it has rejected a single labour hire worker's 'same pay' claim.

An injured worker who was medically restricted to working from home was dismissed when his employer said it wouldn't offer further duties unless he returned to its office, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A 72-year-old worker denied casual conversion wasn't "the victim of a complex conspiracy", the Federal Circuit Court has ruled, in dismissing his general protections claim.

Conciliation conferences have become less about hearing both sides of a dispute and much more focused on offers, so amendments designed to reduce the Fair Work Commission's workload should also be positive for employers, a workplace lawyer says.