ArticleEmployment Law Update - Danger for employers of casual staffService as a casual employee prior to becoming permanent must be taken into account for redundancy pay entitlements.AustraliaEmployment and HRKemp Strang Lawyers
ArticleEmployment Law Update – Change to High Income ThresholdFind out how this change will affect your business.AustraliaEmployment and HRCurwoods Lawyers
ArticleMichael Byrnes is quoted in the article - Twitter's potentially significant issues in mass lay-offs of Aussie staff - published in Lawyers Weekly on 8 November 2022After Elon Musk took over Twitter, a company-wide email informed all staff that their jobs were on the line.AustraliaEmployment and HRSwaab Attorneys
ArticleArrium Workers Agree To 10 Percent Pay Cut As Administrator Seeks To Secure The Company's FutureWorkers at embattled steelmaking and iron ore mining company Arrium have accepted a new enterprise agreement that provides for a 10 percent pay cut. AustraliaEmployment and HRJones Day
ArticleWorkplace facts and figures, effective 1 July 2017With a new Financial Year, there are a number of key employment thresholds that have changed from 1 July 2017.AustraliaEmployment and HRBartier Perry Solicitors
ArticleMichael Byrnes is quoted in the article, "How to navigate misconduct investigations involving mental health challenges".How to navigate misconduct investigations involving mental health challenges.AustraliaEmployment and HRSwaab Attorneys
ArticleSignificant award of reasonable notice and the meaning of ‘ordinary pay’Courts confirm an established line of authority on the assessment of reasonable notice of termination of employment.AustraliaEmployment and HRCarroll & O'Dea
ArticleTwo birds, one RTO: Are return-to-office mandates ‘dismissals in disguise'?Link to articles discussing whether employers could be implementing return-to-office mandates to avoid redundancies.AustraliaEmployment and HRSwaab Attorneys
Article[Video] What employers need to know before they make an employee redundantThere are a number of steps to be followed and laws that govern how and when employers can make an employee redundant.AustraliaEmployment and HRCooper Grace Ward
ArticleFighting on the job no longer an automatic basis for dismissalDiscussion of Browne v Coles Group Supply Chain Pty Limited [2014] FWC 367.AustraliaEmployment and HRCarroll & O'Dea
ArticleMichael Byrnes is quoted in the article, 'Workplace partners 'inundated' with huge uptick in work', published in Lawyers Weekly on 15 March 2023Workplace relations lawyers should keep abreast of economic developments and the impact of those developments on business.AustraliaEmployment and HRSwaab Attorneys
ArticleMichael Byrnes is quoted in the article Legal implications and lessons from Network Ten v van Onselen, published in Lawyers Weekly on 3 August 2023Link to article discussing legal implications of decision that Onselen breached his redundancy contract.AustraliaEmployment and HRSwaab Attorneys
ArticleMichael Byrnes spoke on wills and redundancies in The Law Report on Radio NationalThis Law Report included virtual witnessing of wills and redundancy payouts, and an item on Facebook content moderators.AustraliaEmployment and HRSwaab Attorneys
ArticleDo you trust your staff? High Court to decideFinding redeployment opportunities is implied in employment contracts before you make anyone redundant.AustraliaEmployment and HRMarque Lawyers
ArticleEnforced Redundancy Defeats Restraint ProvisionIn redundancy situations, restraint clauses will generally be unenforceable below the level of senior management.AustraliaEmployment and HRKott Gunning
ArticleFederal Court Finds Averse Action When New Mother Made RedundantJudge Jones found that the employee's position had been made redundant as a result of the restructure, and that Roy Morgan failed to redeploy the Applicant in an equivalent position.AustraliaEmployment and HRJones Day
ArticleNew Unfair Dismissal Laws May Be Too Little, Too LateWith the economic downturn having intensified in Australia in the first half of 2009, it is increasingly clear that the Rudd Government's new unfair dismissal laws will arrive too late to soften the blow of redundancy for many of those affected.AustraliaEmployment and HRMadgwicks
ArticleOverseas Redeployment Not ReasonableMulti-national employers will be pleased to learn that the Fair Work Commission ( FWC ) has agreed that it was not reasonable for an employer to redeploy a redundant worker to overseas operations. AustraliaEmployment and HRJones Day
ArticleCasual service excluded from redundancy calculations: a return to common sense.Recent case confirms that casual workers are not entitled to redundancy pay.AustraliaEmployment and HRMarque Lawyers
ArticleCOVID-19 Government Response Update: JobKeeper allowance and what it means for employersThe Australian government's JobKeeper allowance will enable eligible businesses to retain or reinstate employees.AustraliaEmployment and HRHHG Legal Group