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The legal use of cannabis-based products for medicinal reasons is becoming a reality around Australia. Read on to find out how employers can confront the issue in the workplace. --3 September 2021

This depends on your state’s legislation and how soon the apprentice returns to work.

How do you calculate long service leave if an employee changes from full-time to part-time?

On Wednesday 9 February 2022, the High Court of Australia (‘HCA’) handed down its decision in CFMMEU & Anor v Personnel Contracting Pty Ltd [2022] HCA 1 (Personnel Contracting).

Amended legislation has recently been passed that will make changes to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) to include changes governing casual employment.

An employee on unpaid parental leave has been called for jury duty—but does this mean they’re entitled to make-up pay from their employer? The Fair Work Act provides the answer, but the rules may not be as straightforward as they seem.

Parliament has passed legislation that will see paid parental leave extended from 18 weeks to 20 weeks from 1 July 2023.

An employer still had a valid reason to dismiss an employee even though it wasn’t the reason it gave at the time.

NSW has introduced new industrial manslaughter laws to strengthen workplace safety, with harsher penalties for gross negligence leading to deaths in the workplace.