March 9th, 2020 By John Tuck (Head of Employment and Labour) and Paul Burns (Partner) with Corrs Chambers Westgarth, 6 March 2020. As coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, employers are grappling with how best to protect and manage their employees in these very unusual circumstances. In addition to business...
November 20th, 2019 By Annie Smeaton (Partner) and Belinda Winter (Partner) of Cooper Grace Ward. While fun and enjoyable for most, work Christmas parties can turn into HR nightmares. Here is what you need to do to ensure that you and your staff are well prepared. The ‘silly season’ is upon us but it is important that employers and employees are...
September 23rd, 2019 By Nicola Martin (Principal) and Samantha Beattie (Law Graduate) of McCabe Curwood. On 29 August 2019, the Federal Government released an exposure draft of its proposed Religious Discrimination Bill for public submissions (the Bill). The Bill seeks to establish a Commonwealth Act prohibiting religious discrimination. The...
April 3rd, 2019 By Sally Moten (Partner) and Justine Krajewski (Lawyer) of Lander & Rogers. We have all been there; struggling to make it to work following a big night of Netflix - having no choice but to either call in sick or reach for the pain killers to cure the insufferable headache from excess screen time. In fear of getting sacked for...
October 24th, 2017By Hannah Ellis, Patricia Ryan and Kim McGuren of The Workplace - Employment Lawyers. Following the recent claims made against Harvey Weinstein, thousands of women have spoken up about their experience of workplace sexual harassment using the hashtag #metoo. We might like to imagine that sexual harassment is not happening in...
August 14th, 2017By Libby Pallot (Principal), Anthony Massaro, Abbey Sutton, Ben Tallboys, Caitlin Walsh and Tarishi Desai of Russell Kennedy Lawyers.
Workplace romances have recently been in the spotlight thanks to two highly publicised news stories. The resignation of two Senior AFL Executives for “inappropriate relationships” with younger...
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