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Employment Contract – Here are five key takeaways every employer must understand to avoid compliance risks and financial penalties.

Federal Court fines CBA $10.34M for Fair Work Act breaches, underpayments, and compliance failures. Highlighting leadership’s role in workplace compliance.

Federal Court fines 85 Degrees Coffee $1.44M for breaching Fair Work Act. A critical reminder for franchisors to meet compliance obligations in 2024.

Justice Bromwich of the Federal Court of Australia has handed a $1,440,000 fine to a Franchisor found to have fallen well short of its ‘responsible franchisor duties’ under the Fair Work Act 2009.  His Honour previously handed down the AU$10M record workplace penalty to the Commonwealth Bank in February of this year.

When ‘You’ll be better off overall’ turns out to be incorrect, the relaxed ‘over award’ approach a deadly system to have

The new changes only apply to new fixed-term contracts (i.e., fixed-term contracts entered into after 6 December 2023).

There’s only one thing worse than a poorly planned and/or executed termination of employment scenario…reinstatement. Like getting back with an ex… it is usually a toxic outcome! – (not advice).

Background

The decisions Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union & Anor v Personnel Contracting Pty Ltd [2022] HCA 1 (“Personnel”) and ZG Operations Australia Ltd v Jamsek [2022] HCA 2 (“Jamsek”) both concern whether the relationship between the parties was an employment relationship or a contractor relationship.

In Roberts v Department for Education [2021] SAET 225 (‘Roberts’) the Full Bench considered two important issues regarding the operation of section 18 of the Return to Work Act 2014 (‘the Act’) which is the section of the Act that imposes an obligation on employers to provide suitable employment to injured workers.