Jodie Sanders-Bond Articles

Workplace Agreements – Can an individual contract still be used? Even though AWA’s are no longer permitted under current workplace laws, employers and employees can still come to an individual arrangement to vary or exclude certain Award or Enterprise Agreement (EA) terms in order to meet the genuine needs of the employer and the employee.

On 1 January 2012, new workplace safety laws commenced in Queensland. The other Australian States have also enacted new laws so that there is now consistency between States in relation to workplace safety requirements. Below is a brief summary of the new laws:

The adverse action provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act) have potentially wide reaching implications for employers when it comes to the performance management and discipline of employees. The Act prohibits an employer from taking an adverse action against an employee because that employee exercises or proposes to exercise a workplace right. The Act…

In an unusual case decided in November this year by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland, an owner of an unregistered motorcycle was ordered to pay over $1M to the Nominal Defendant (the State of Queensland). The Nominal Defendant stands in the place of a CTP Insurer (compulsory third party insurance taken…