An employer that published promotional videos about its business success a month after making an employee's role redundant has failed to defend his unfair dismissal claim.
Redundancy challenges are rising sharply in the wake of COVID-19. This webinar discusses new redundancy rulings and their implications; applications to reduce redundancy entitlements; restructuring best practices in light of COVID-19; and specific considerations ahead of the JobKeeper subsidy ending.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected a director's dispute over his hours and pay being reduced to the JobKeeper minimum, in light of the employer's significant cash flow challenges.
Many employers responded swiftly to COVID-19 by standing down workers, and now as restrictions lift they face big questions about which steps to take next. In this Q&A, an employment lawyer shares some guiding principles.
The Fair Work Commission has criticised an employer for compromising some fundamental rights when conducting psychometric assessments, but ultimately ruled a worker's dismissal was fair.
Coles has shared how it handled recruitment demand escalating by more than five-fold over four weeks at the height of COVID-19's impact on supermarkets.
Many employers are now preparing or transitioning back to workplaces, and this has given rise to questions around managing employee pushback, safety obligations and liabilities, long-term flexibility, and more. Here, an employment lawyer answers some key questions.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
