An unnamed food and catering business pleaded guilty to contravening the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 for failing to provide a safe system of work, which exposed a young ...
An unnamed food and catering business pleaded guilty to contravening the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 for failing to provide a safe system of work, which exposed a young teenage worker to a hazardous cleaning product.
On 24 May 2018, the Government first introduced a 12-month superannuation guarantee amnesty. The relevant Bill failed to pass the Senate and then lapsed when the federal election was called on 11 April 2019.
Under the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth), Australian entities or ‘entities that carry on business in Australia’ with a yearly consolidated revenue of at least $100 million will be required to submit a modern slavery report.
The Northern Territory Government has supported the introduction of new ‘industrial manslaughter’ provisions within the Workplace Health and Safety Act, promising to implement the changes in 2020. This comes as a response to an incident in 2016 that saw a man run over and killed by a prime mover in
Woolworths has agreed to an Enforceable Undertaking (ET) with NT WorkSafe for an amount of $1.8 million after a man was run over and killed by a subcontractor’s prime mover in October 2016 at the Hibiscus Shopping Centre.
A horrific accident in the Northern Territory has given rise to a charge against Woolworths Ltd, brought by the Work Health Authority (WHA), for a breach of section 32 of the Workplace Health and Safety Act (NT).
Employers have many tax and superannuation obligations when it comes to their employees. While there is a common law test for whether someone is an ‘employee’, different legislation expands the ordinary meaning to deem particular individuals to be employees when they are not. This can create significant problems where employers
Employers need to be careful of a couple of traps where their employees are working overtime.
It is often difficult for employers to implement new employment contracts for existing employees, particularly when employers are seeking to make changes that are for the benefit of the business.
In Daniel Racek v DP World Sydney [2019] FWC 772, an employer was severely criticised by the Commission for allowing an employee to return to work after an incident in which the employee needed to be ‘talked down’ after threatening to commit suicide at work.
The Fair Work Ombudsman’s recent focus on accessorial liability has again been demonstrated in a recent case where two directors who were ‘wilfully blind’ to the fact that employees were not being paid their entitlements were found personally liable for the underpayments.
In the recent decision of Sarah Cruise v Baxter Cassidy Pty Ltd T/A Ray White Langwarrin [2019] FWC 1751, the Commission found that an employer’s failure to consult with an employee caused the dismissal to be unfair and not a genuine redundancy.
Cooper Grace Ward acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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