The Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Bill 2012("Bill") proposes a number of changes to the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 (Cth) ("Act"). This comes after a comprehensive review of th...

The Government has also introduced two bills to replace the current general employee entitlements and redundancy scheme (GEERS) with an equivalent legislative scheme and to extend transfer of business protections to state public s...

Fair Work Australia (FWA) continues to treat social media terminations with caution, but with a clear signal that its tolerance of social media ignorance will not last. Background In July this year, we reported that FWA had over...

The recently created Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal ("RSRT") issued a statement seeking written submissions on matters that should be included in its Annual Work Program. Submissions were received from individuals and organisa...

On 3 September 2012, Justice Besanko of the Federal Court ordered the Commonwealth Bank of Australia ("CBA") to pay $317,500 in damages to one of its former executives for CBA's breach of this implied contractual term of mutual tr...

Our article earlier this year highlighted the potential for businesses to be caught by the widening of responsibility for "safety and fairness" and remuneration in the Australian road transport industry as a result of the creati...