Our legal updates focus on important employment law and industrial relations issues.

Legal Updates

MINIMUM PAY RATES TO INCREASE BY 3.3% AND OTHER CHANGES TAKING EFFECT ON 1 JULY 2017

Date: June 8, 2017
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has handed down its decision on minimum pay, providing an increase of 3.3% to the national minimum wage and minimum award rates. The changes take effect on 1 July 2017. Sunday penalty rates in a limited number of modern awards will reduce on 1 July 2017 with the commencement of… > READ MORE

ACCESSORIAL LIABILITY FOR BREACHES OF THE FAIR WORK ACT 2009 (CTH)

Date: May 4, 2017
A recent decision of the Federal Circuit Court has highlighted the broad reach of the provisions in the Fair Work Act which enable a Court to impose civil penalties against individuals, companies and other bodies for being involved in a contravention of the legislation. ISSUE The accessorial liability provisions contained in the Fair Work Act… > READ MORE

RESTRAINT OF TRADE CLAUSES IN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS

Date: January 17, 2017
A recent decision of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria, handed down in late December 2016, Just Group Limited v Peck [2016] VSCA 334 (Peck Case), brings into sharp focus the importance of giving proper care and attention when drafting employee restraint clauses. In this Legal Update we analyse the case… > READ MORE