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Intrusive managers ramp up stress levels
A new study confirms that managers contacting employees after hours is causing extra job stress.
How do you calculate overtime penalty rates?
Struggling with overtime calculations? Discover the correct method for applying penalty rates and how modern awards impact your pay structure. Get clarity on daily vs. aggregated overtime and avoid costly mistakes.
How to Navigate the Right to Disconnect
Learn how this affects after-hours communication, the responsibilities under modern awards, and practical steps employers should take to manage disputes and comply with the Fair Work Act.
Health And Safety Representative Entitled To Payment For Whs Inspections On Days Off
The NSW Industrial Relations Commission ruled that a health and safety representative must be paid for WHS inspections conducted on days off, highlighting the entitlement to compensation for necessary inspections outside scheduled hours.
Ordering employee back to office and reducing her hours amounted to dismissal
An employee has successfully claimed she was dismissed after a dispute relating to entitlements to working from home.
Shift penalties
Shift penalties compensate employees for working ordinary hours that are generally considered undesirable or unsociable.
The Right to Disconnect
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Public holidays: What does double time and a half mean?
Understand what “double time and a half” really means on public holidays, how it’s calculated, and what employees are actually entitled to under modern awards and the Fair Work Act.
Overtime and Saturday work
Are you confused about entitlements to overtime payments when modern awards allow for ordinary hours to be worked on Saturdays?
Can employees be directed to work Boxing Day?
Planning to open on Boxing Day? Learn about your rights as an employer and the rules employees must follow when refusing to work on public holidays.