In Trevena v Thiess Pty Ltd [2016] FCA 468, Tracey J rejected a general protections claim made by an employee who claimed that his employer had taken adverse action against him because he exercised a workplace right to make a complaint in relation to his employment....
The Prime Minister advised the Governor-General to call a double-dissolution Federal election for 2 July 2016. The public debate surrounding the election was that it is likely to touch on a variety of issues that affect not for profit organisations. Examples include...
Parents of a former student of an elite independent Sydney girls’ school recently commenced proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales alleging that the School failed to accord their daughter procedural fairness. It is an issue about which all...
In Starr v Department of Human Services [2016] FWC 1460, Vice President Hatcher provided some commentary on the circumstances in which employers are entitled to dismiss employees for conduct that they engage in outside of work hours. The facts Mr Starr was a...
Ever since the decision of the Federal Court in Goldman Sachs JBWere Services Pty Limited v Nikolich [2007] FCFCA 120, employers have had to think very carefully about incorporating workplace policies and procedures into their employment contracts. If your policies...
The decision of the Federal Circuit Court in Heraud v Roy Morgan Research Ltd [2016] FCCA 185 (‘Heraud’) is a timely reminder that employers need to be careful if they are restructuring the organisational chart whilst employees are on maternity leave. Roy Morgan...
