A quick Q&A covering COVID-related employment scenarios
With Victoria currently in the middle of Stage 4 restrictions, with impending announcements to be made in the next few weeks concerning the lifting of restrictions (hopefully!), it’s a good time to revisit some of [...]
Extension of JobKeeper provisions in the Fair Work Act (FWA)
Legislation was passed on 1 September 2020 to extend the JobKeeper scheme until 28 March 2021. Accordingly, the JobKeeper provisions in the FWA were also extended, with some changes. The extended provisions take effect from [...]
Can you request your JobKeeper employees to work more hours?
Yes. But the request must be considered ‘reasonable’. If an employer requests an employee to work on different days, or at different times (outside of their ‘ordinary hours’), the employee must consider the request and [...]
The impending lift of COVID-19 insolvency relief – where to from here?
The Australian government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic incorporated several changes to insolvency legislation. In short, financially distressed businesses were given temporary relief with increases to the threshold at which creditors can issue a statutory [...]
Wording is so important in employment law – meaning of the word “day”
The High Court decision in the matter Mondelez v AMWU [2020] HCA 29 was handed down on 13 August 2020. It overturned the August 2019 Full Federal Court decision and restored the primary objectives of [...]
My competitor has copied my website content. Can I stop them?
As bricks and mortar businesses pivot to online models during the pandemic, the temptation to ‘borrow’ content from a competitor’s site in order to get a head start is ever-present. The unfortunate result is that [...]
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