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Unions in disciplinary meetings: your practical guide

Thinking| 11 Oct 2019

Unions in disciplinary meetings: your practical guide

You’ve asked your employee to attend a disciplinary meeting, and they show up with a union official. What should you do next? The presence of union officials in disciplinary meetings can feel like a legal minefield for employers. In this practical guide, we’ll take a look at the differences between a support person and a union representative, and share tips on complying with your legal obligations.

Royal Commission into Disability Abuse – First Public Sitting

Thinking| 18 Sep 2019

Royal Commission into Disability Abuse – First Public Sitting

Some important issues have been clarified at the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability’s first public sitting held in Brisbane on 16 September 2019...

Fair Work Commission finds dismissal following Facebook tirade to be harsh

Thinking| 12 Sep 2019

Fair Work Commission finds dismissal following Facebook tirade to be harsh

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has once again considered the persistent challenges raised by an employee’s use of social media outside work. The recent decision of the FWC decided that it was harsh for alarm and surveillance monitoring provider Staysafe Security t/as Alarmnet Monitoring (Alarmnet) to terminate long-term employee Creina Murkitt after she was found […]

Social media in the dock: High Court view on employee’s tweets

Thinking| 12 Sep 2019

Social media in the dock: High Court view on employee’s tweets

On 7 August 2019, the High Court handed down a decision finding that a commonwealth employee’s employment was lawfully terminated due to disciplinary action taken against her for broadcasting anonymously more than 9,000 tweets which were critical of her then-employer (the Department of Immigration), other employees and government and opposition immigration policies generally. While the […]

Beyond the federal election: workplace relations update

Thinking| 26 Jun 2019

Beyond the federal election: workplace relations update

The dust has now settled since the surprise re-election of the Morrison Government last month and the subsequent Cabinet reshuffle. Now is a good time to consider what the focus of Government is in respect of workplace relations, and what this may mean for Australian employers. On 24 June 2019, Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed […]