An employer has to pay a casual employee maximum compensation for unfair dismissal, after asking her to work unpaid extra hours because she received JobKeeper while on sick leave.
The Fair Work Commission has handed down important rulings for employers on calculating overtime rates for casual employees, and what constitutes regular and systematic employment.
Dismissing an employee who had been absent for more than two years was unfair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, because the employer lacked evidence he would be unable to perform the inherent requirements of his role in the future.
A proposed charter for working from home would be a setback for flexibility, an employer group says. Also in this article, how remote productivity measures are failing, and leaders' role in reducing 'overwork'.
It was reasonable for an employer to contact an employee while he was on sick leave after a Facebook post implied he'd caught COVID-19 from a client, the Fair Work Commission has found in dismissing his stop-bullying claim.
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Workers' compensation schemes should fund treatment and rehabilitation for all mental-health-related claims for up to six months, regardless of liability, a major report recommends.
Employers have stepped up their wellbeing programs significantly during COVID but it's probably not enough to address the mental health damage that this year is set to wreak, a Gartner vice president says.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
