Parliament moves to block casuals from “double dipping” Following the Federal Court’s decision to award paid annual leave to a casual employee, see our previous legal alert “Regular Casual Employees Entitled to Annual Leave“, Federal Parliament has announced a regulation to be included in the Fair Work Regulations 2009 that is intended
This week, Federal Parliament has passed legislation to: respond to two recommendations of the Productivity Commission’s 2015 Final Report into the Workplace Relation Framework; and introduce unpaid domestic violence leave into the National Employment Standards in the Fair Work Act 2009. Productivity Commission’s recommendations The first
On 1 August 2018, the Fair Work Commission inserted a term entitling employees to unpaid family and domestic violence into all modern awards. The leave is available to all employees covered by a modern award. Employers should ensure that any relevant Leave Without Pay policies are updated
In September 2017, the Fair Work Commission expressed a provisional view that all modern awards be varied to insert a flexible working arrangements clause, which would expand on the right for employees to request flexible working arrangements under the Fair Work Act 2009. The Commission recently determined
Minister for Women, Kelly O’Dwyer yesterday unveiled reforms to Paid Parental Leave aimed at providing more flexibility to new parents. Until now, primary carers have had to take paid parental leave as one block of 18 weeks. The proposed change, to come into effect on 1
The full bench of the Fair Work Commission has split over when an agreement is “made” and whether bargaining can continue or must re-start if the Commission refuses to approve it. This arose in the context of an appeal against Commissioner McKinnon’s decision to refuse a
The South Australian Liberal Government has confirmed plans to repeal the Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017 (SA) (Act). The Act, passed by the previous Labor Government in March 2018, required labour hire companies to be licensed by 1 September 2018 and comply with a range of
The Federal Government has introduced the Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2018 (Bill) to Parliament to honour the commitment to provide all national system employees with five (5) days of unpaid domestic violence leave per year. This will be by proposed amendment
The Full Federal Court recently delivered a decision entitling an employee engaged and paid as a ‘casual’ employee to annual leave under the National Employment Standards in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). This has been reported widely in the media, for the consequences that this
In July 2017, the Fair Work Commission determined to introduce a model casual conversion clause into 85 modern awards and expressed a provisional view about its form. The Commission subsequently proposed several amendments to the model clause and recently published the final model clause that will
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