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The Victorian Court of appeal recently rejected financial services firm Crowe Horwarth Pty Ltd's appeal to enforce post-employment restraints against a senior accountant who sought to provide accounti...

The recent disclosure of holiday pay irregularities in Police and more recently MBIE are no surprise and probably the tip of the iceberg. The Holidays Act 2003 is too complicated, but the real issue i...

Uber's problems appear to be escalating.   June 20 has now been set as the date for the class action lawsuit to determine whether Californian Uber drivers are employees or contractors. Last year in pe...

From 1 April 2016 paid parental leave is extended to 18 weeks. 

This Act finally comes into force on 4 April 2016. Much has already been said about its specific provisions.  Our view is that legislation and a strict compliance regime will not protect your people, ...

The Employment Standards Legislation comes into effect from 1 April.  The original Bill has been split into amendments to a number of existing Acts. The aim of the amendments is to promote fairer and ...

The Minimum Wage is increased from 1 April 2016.

When any of these holidays fall on a weekend, as happens this year with Boxing Day and 2 January falling on a Saturday, the situation can be confusing especially in respect of employees who do not wor...

With Malcolm Turnbull in charge it remains to be seen whether the Australian Government will significantly change its approach to employment legislation.  Australian employment legislation is complex ...

A raft of new regulations from matters such as Asbestos removal to everyday manual handling, have been released for consultation.  What is clear is that we are reverting to the prescriptive approach t...

This subject will be of interest to many of our clients who operate in Fiji. Unionism has been repressed in Fiji since the coup in 2006 and for some time the ILO has been applying pressure on the Gove...