The High Court of Australia has now confirmed that when a union delegate was disciplined over misuse of email, his employer was motivated by the reasons it gave in evidence and not the employee's role as a union official, despite ...

Enterprise agreement “opt-out” clauses are not a safe bet but that there are alternative ways to reward and engage employees covered by enterprise agreements (EAs). Recently, Fair Work Australia (FWA) has put an end to the ...

On 28 June 2012, the federal government introduced the Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 4) Bill 2012 (Bill) into parliament which, if passed in its existing form, will drastically alter the tax treatment of living away from h...

On 20 December 2011 the Hon Bill Shorten MP announced the appointment of a three-member panel to review the operation of the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act) and related legislation.  In particular, the Panel was asked to assess the o...

Facebook is a word that did not appear in decisions of Fair Work Australia (FWA), the federal industrial tribunal, until 2009. Since that first mention, there have been over 20 decided cases involving unfair dismissal claims by em...

On 29 June 2012 the Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Act 2012 received royal assent. The legislation has been introduced to expand the director penalty regime; making directors now personally liable for their company’s u...