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How you terminate an employee can be a minefield, with many employers appearing before the FWC when they got it wrong.

Unfair dismissal claims may cause costly legal disputes between employers and employees.

Civmec Construction & Engineering Pty Ltd v Joel Minchin[2025] FWCFB 2.

A 'day' for paid personal/carer's leave is one tenth of the employee's ordinary hours of work in a two-week period.

Employers should ensure that jurisdictional objections are identified and raised, as doing so may limit their liability.

Last week the Australian Government announced a three step framework for a COVIDSafe Australia. The states and territories are able to implement changes based on their specific COVID-19 conditions.

This Month in Review considers COVID-19 and workplace laws, recent employment law in the news and in the courts.

Adverse action under the Fair Work Act has a potentially very wide application

Summary of recent unfair dismissal case. Link to full decision.

This recent FWC decision gave some clarification on the issue of constructive dismissal.

The Federal Court has expressed divided opinion on the construction of adverse action provisions in the Fair Work Act.

There should be cogent business reasons for the use of these contracts (other than to avoid unfair dismissal claims).

The CFMEU has successfully challenged a key aspect of the Victorian State Government regulation of industrial relations.

This may turn out to be a workplace relations law case for the ages!

Various parts of the Fair Work Act come into effect on 1 July 2009. Among them are the provisions enacting the new federal unfair dismissal and ‘adverse action’ jurisdictions of Fair Work Australia (FWA).

The minimum notice requirements in section 117 of the Fair Work Act do not confer a right of termination.

FWA confirms that employers need to have social media policies, so that employees take their employment into account.