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Can employers require their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine?

Employment & Workplace Relations| 22 Jan 2021

Can employers require their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine?

Whether a private employer can direct its employees to be vaccinated is a multi-faceted issue. The central question is whether an employer’s direction to be vaccinated is lawful and reasonable.

Making Your Mark – a guide for SMEs and advisors: are you doing enough to ‘control’ the use of your trade marks?

Uncategorised| 20 Jan 2021

Making Your Mark – a guide for SMEs and advisors: are you doing enough to ‘control’ the use of your trade marks?

In the third article of our series looking at some of the key issues for trade mark owners, and their advisors, operating in and entering the Australian market, we provide some tips for exercising proper ‘control’ over your trade marks.

Underpayments of over $4.4 million? Lush tries to ‘makeup’ with enforceable undertaking

Employment & Workplace Relations| 18 Dec 2020

Underpayments of over $4.4 million? Lush tries to ‘makeup’ with enforceable undertaking

The Australian branch of international cosmetics company Lush has entered into an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman, and undertaken to back pay employees over $4.4 million.

Public Law – Holiday Edition

Thinking| 17 Dec 2020

Public Law – Holiday Edition

As we come to the end of a year like no other and look forward to the holidays, we farewell the year with a bumper edition of Public Law.

Payments to medical practitioners of almost $158 million determined to be not deductible

Tax| 17 Dec 2020

Payments to medical practitioners of almost $158 million determined to be not deductible

The Full Federal Court in Commissioner of Taxation v Healius Ltd [2020] FCAFC 173 has overturned the Federal Court’s decision, determining that $158 million worth of lump sum payments made to medical practitioners were capital in nature and unable to be deducted.