‘Maximum’ weekly hours of work

‘Maximum’ weekly hours of work

As workplace relations practitioners will be aware, s 62 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) forms part of the National Employment Standards. The provision is somewhat unhelpfully entitled ‘Maximum weekly hours’ in that the FW Act does not set an outer limit on...Read More
Instilling confidence in workplace investigation processes

Instilling confidence in workplace investigation processes

It is far from uncommon that when allegations of misconduct are raised, an implicit pressure can exist for workplace relations practitioners to conduct a workplace investigation into those allegations in an expedited manner.  Relevant stakeholders are eager to be made...Read More
Redeployment…reasonable in all of the circumstances?

Redeployment…reasonable in all of the circumstances?

Where an employee has been dismissed from their employment, their employer may seek to resist certain claims by asserting that the dismissal was a case of genuine redundancy. Indeed, where it has been alleged that an employer has unfairly dismissed an employee, and...Read More