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In this video, CGW senior associate Craig Turvey talks us through the process of changing a parenting order. It’s not as simple as you might think!
The amendments to the Environmental Protection Act 1994, which established the environmental chain of responsibility laws in Queensland, have been in place for nearly five years.
On 23 February 2021, the Federal Parliament passed two Acts which merge the Family Court and Federal Circuit Court into one Court.
Whether an individual is an employee or contractor continues to cause disputes.
As an employer, are you taking all reasonable steps to manage the impact of stress on the workplace?
The scope of a principal contractor’s common law and statutory duty of care toward a subcontractor’s employee has been identified as less stringent than the duty of care owed by the relevant employee’s employer, even in circumstances where the principal contractor has the ultimate control of the workplace.
In this recent decision, a café and its general manager were ordered to pay penalties exceeding a combined total of $230,000 for contraventions of the FW Act described by the Court as being brought about by ‘deliberate indifference’ to obligations arising under the FW Act and the applicable modern award.
In the recent decision of Amy Greene v Floreat Hotel Pty Ltd [2020] FWCFB 6019, the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has reiterated that casual employees’ hours need not be consistent or predictable for their employment to be regular and systematic.
Section 392(3) of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) provides that, if the Fair Work Commission (FWC) is satisfied that misconduct of a person contributed to the employer’s decision to dismiss the person, the FWC must reduce the amount of compensation it would otherwise order by an appropriate amount on account of the misconduct.
In the recent decision of Amy Greene v Floreat Hotel Pty Ltd [2020] FWCFB 6019, the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has reiterated that casual employees’ hours need not be consistent or predictable for their employment to be regular and systematic.
In this week’s edition of ‘It depends’, partner Hayley Mitchell covers what happens to your self managed super fund when a member loses capacity.
The ATO has confirmed that, from 1 July 2021, the general transfer balance cap (currently $1.6 million) will be indexed to $1.7 million.