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Managing employee misconduct requires careful attention to detail.

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Forcing an employee into a situation where they have no choice but to leave is as illegal as any other form of bullying.

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Australian businesses may turn to the FWC with claims of workplace bullying.

A recent decision handed down in the Supreme Court of Victoria found that a group of senior employees did not disclose their involvement in the purchase of two businesses owned by their employer.  The Court found that failure destroyed the necessary “confidence” essential to the relationship of employer and employee and was a breach of […]

Background The Fair Work Act provides that an employee’s entitlement to be paid for annual leave arises when an employee takes a period of paid annual leave, or when the employee has unused annual leave upon cessation of employment (section 90 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)). There is also a prohibition on cashing […]

Qantas and job security: What will FWA decide? The Qantas dispute highlights the issue of the extent to which employees and their union representatives can press for inclusion of job security clauses in enterprise agreements. Fair Work Australia (FWA) is about to undertake a process of making a workplace determination to break the impasse between […]