Businesses with casual employees, listen up!
Last year we informed you that there was a change a-comin'
for long-term regular casual employees (you can read that article
here).
As it stands, more than 80 modern awards have now been amended
to include a right to request casual conversion clause. In
essence, a regular casual employee has the right to request that
their employment be converted to permanent, and the employer can
only refuse the request on reasonable business grounds.
Before the end of the year, if your business employs casuals,
you must:
- identify any modern award applicable to those employees;
- check out if the modern award has a casual conversion
clause;
