As we speak, most of Australia is currently governed by several Directives, concerning mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations. Most prominently, on 7 October 2021, the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination (Workers) Direction came into force in Victoria, which relates to all authorised providers and authorised workers who are not working from home. Many Employers are scrambling to understand their [...]
Casual Conversion Deadline – 27 September 2021 There is just under one week left for Employers to ensure that they have assessed their existing casual employees for conversion to permanent employment. What does this mean? If you employ casuals and you are not a small business, you must take action to comply with the new provisions in the Fair [...]
A question a lot of employers are asking at the moment is whether they can require their employees to get a vaccine. The answer to this is a great one for lawyers which everyone hates to hear: “it depends.” It does depend on your industry, public health orders, level of risk of infection, etc. Industrial [...]
The Fair Work Commission recently made significant changes to the Miscellaneous Award 2020 (the Miscellaneous Award), which came into effect on 1 July 2020. It is important that all businesses review their current employment arrangements, to ensure that employees who were thought to be ‘non-award covered’ employees have not been caught in the wider net now cast [...]
