An employer needn't wait for a potential crisis to materialise before taking action to protect its business, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, in accepting a redundancy prompted by early COVID-19 concerns was genuine.
A tribunal full bench has criticised a judge for failing to consider the domestic abuse implications of reinstating an employee who was sacked for stalking a colleague.
The Fair Work Commission, in assessing what constitutes a stoppage of work and useful employment when standing down employees, has rejected a worker's claim that he shouldn't have been stood down because his role was still being performed.
Most employers were quick to freeze salaries in the wake of COVID-19, but the proportion actually reducing employees' pay has been growing, according to new research by Korn Ferry.
Atlassian has focused on measuring how employees are doing instead of what they're doing during the pandemic, and is now sharing the tools it has developed to communicate and understand where people need support.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has rejected another jurisdictional challenge by Qantas regarding a JobKeeper underpayment dispute. Meanwhile the Commission has reduced an employer's redundancy obligation to nil, accepting it had no capacity to pay.
Impacts of the Rossato v WorkPac case are likely to include both a loss of flexibility for employers if more casuals convert to permanency, and also a rise in the irregularity and unpredictability of work for those who don't, experts say.
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