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1 July 2025 marked the start of the new financial year in Australia, which means that new employment thresholds and limits are now in effect. We summarise the key changes that employers need to be aware of below....more
As flexible and remote working become a fixture of modern working life, employers are grappling with how these arrangements affect redundancy and the consideration of other acceptable employment. Two recent cases in Australia...more
As we find ourselves in the new financial year, a number of the key financial thresholds relating to employees have changed. Click here to view our summary of the key thresholds for the 2025/2026 financial year. From 1 July...more
The Australian Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Employment, Industrial Relations and Safety team help our clients achieve success across the full range of workplace issues. In truth, the legal and social environment has never...more
In Part 3 of our series, we’ll look at the standard of proof, the conduct of interviews, how each country aims to protect confidentiality and whistleblowers, and privacy....more
“Curiosity killed the cat” is a proverb “used to warn of the dangers of unnecessary investigation or experimentation” (Wikipedia) or is an idiom “said to warn someone not to ask too many questions about something” (Cambridge...more
As part of a suite of reforms intended to prevent sexual harassment and gender-based harassment, the Australian Government has released a detailed code of practice under work health and safety legislation. The government’s...more
As part of a raft of changes coming in the weeks and months ahead in relation to discrimination laws in Queensland, work health and safety rules are being amended to require relevant employers to implement a sexual harassment...more
In this special end of year publication, we take a look back at another tumultuous year in Australian employment law following significant changes. Almost every area of Australian employment law has over the past two years...more
A number of employment law reforms and requirements are hitting Australian operations over the next several months. Laws governing wage theft, the right to disconnect, shut-down notices, privacy, sexual harassment, and...more
Yet more changes are ahead for employers as key elements of the Federal Labor Government's Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing the Loopholes No 2) Act 2024 (the Act) take effect on 26 August 2024....more
As we find ourselves in the new financial year, a number of the key financial thresholds relating to employees have increased. From 1 July 2024, the national minimum wage has increased by 3.75% to AU$24.10 per hour....more
The last several months have seen rapid changes in the employment and workplace health and safety space. With such dynamic movement, and then lots of commentary on each of these changes, it’s easy to view all these changes as...more
The Federal Labor Government (Government) has completed its third tranche of workplace relations reform with the recent passage through Federal Parliament of its Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No. 2) Bill...more
As we approach 1 July 2023, a number of the key financial thresholds relating to employees will increase. We have prepared a handy key thresholds table for the 2023/2024 financial year for employers. Click here to view the...more
On 4 November 2022 we published a summary of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill 2022 (Cth) (Bill) as it was introduced into Parliament. You are able to access that summary here. In passing the Bill, Parliament made a...more
The Federal Government recently introduced the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill 2022 (Cth) (Bill) into Parliament, which proposes to amend the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (Act) and the operation of the Fair Work Commission (FWC). ...more
As we approach 1 July 2022, a number of the key financial thresholds relating to employees will increase. We have prepared a handy key thresholds table for the 2022/2023 financial year for employers. From 1 July 2022, the...more
The Victorian Government's proposed Occupational Health and Safety Amendment (Psychological Health) Regulations (Vic) (the Proposed Regulations) are expected to commence on 1 July 2022. The Proposed Regulations contain...more
CASUAL CONVERSION – TIME TO BE READY TO MAKE OFFERS - Earlier this year, the Australian Federal government introduced broad changes to laws relating to casual employment which included a requirement for employers to offer...more
The Morrison Government's first major workplace reform Bill was introduced into Federal Parliament on 9 December 2020 and has resulted in one significant reform to casual employment laws. The amendments will take effect...more
The Morrison Government's first major workplace reform Bill was introduced into Federal Parliament on 9 December 2020. The Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 (the Omnibus Bill)...more
A 4-1 majority of the High Court of Australia (with Gaegler J dissenting) has overturned the controversial Mondelez decision, confirming what has been the widespread understanding of the operation of personal/carer's leave...more
Should I be standing my employees down or issuing a JobKeeper direction When this all started in March, many employers had never contemplated a stand down and most had not heard of Section 524 of the Fair Work Act....more
Victoria has introduced the Occupational Health and Safety (COVID-19 Incident Notification) Regulations 2020 (Notification Regulation) requiring an employer to notify WorkSafe Victoria immediately of the following...more