The upcoming review of casual conversion rights presents an opportunity to "streamline" the process and address its "monstrous administrative burden", an employee relations specialist says.
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The High Court's WorkPac ruling ends employers' uncertainty over class actions and reinforces the importance of setting clear expectations when employing casuals, a workplace lawyer says.
The High Court has put an end to the "turbulent" case law involving casual employment for the past few years, in overturning a ruling that a casual should have received permanent employee entitlements.
The Fair Work Commission has dealt with its first casual conversion dispute. Also in this article, the Government will implement all recommendations proposed for improving how the Parliamentary workplace responds to serious incidents.
Arrangements "camouflaged" an organisation's ability to control its workforce but its capacity for control pointed to an employment rather than contracting relationship, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
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