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Bullying increasingly is becoming a costly matter for business, with the 2014 introduction of the Fair Work Commission’s (Commission) anti-bullying laws, and recent significant damages orders for [...]

Employers in Australia have obligations under State and federal laws which must be complied with. Directors, managers and supervisors can be held personally liable under some of these laws, [...]

Accessory liability provisions are increasingly being used to pursue directors and managers of businesses personally, for breaches of obligations to employees. Under these accessory liability [...]

1. Increase to minimum wages In accordance with the Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review decision earlier this month, minimum rates of pay under awards and the national minimum wage will [...]

Workplace relations laws have been reformed significantly over the past decade. Importantly to SME’s, these reforms have included the introduction of many new types of claims against employers [...]

A company has been ordered to pay record fines of $238,920, and its director a fine of $47,784 for engaging in ‘sham contracting’ in relation to seven ‘contractors’ who should have been treated [...]

Both the Coalition’s recently announced Policy to Protect Vulnerable Workers (Coalition’s Policy) and the ALP’s Rights at Work policy (ALP’s Policy), announced in February this year, proposed [...]

Employee or contractor? Most employers are aware that before hiring a worker they need to determine whether the worker will be an employee or a contractor. Whether an arrangement is one of [...]