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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.

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.

Industrial relations reforms: what you need to know about what’s to come

Employment & Workplace Relations| 15 Dec 2020

Industrial relations reforms: what you need to know about what’s to come

The introduction of the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 on 9 December 2020 represents what could be the biggest shake up to Australia’s industrial relations system since the commencement of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) on 1 July 2009.

Update: keeping it casual? High Court grants leave for appeal of Rossato decision

Employment & Workplace Relations| 01 Dec 2020

Update: keeping it casual? High Court grants leave for appeal of Rossato decision

Employers for many months have been struggling to understand and ensure compliance with the decision of the Full Federal Court in May on WorkPac Pty Ltd v Rossato. This could all be reversed, however, as the High Court has now ...

Imminent reforms to industrial relations in Australia

Employment & Workplace Relations| 20 Nov 2020

Imminent reforms to industrial relations in Australia

Australia’s industrial relations regime is expected to undergo substantial reforms during the coming months. We provide a run-down of what we expect to see in the reforms.