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Shift Work & Public Holidays: Know When Penalty Rates Apply

Do night shifts crossing over public holidays attract full penalty rates? Find out how shift timing and award rules impact entitlements—especially on long weekends.

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Overtime and Saturday work

Are you confused about entitlements to overtime payments when modern awards allow for ordinary hours to be worked on Saturdays? Read on for an example of how it works.

Flexible Work Requests: The High Cost of Skipping a Step

An employer’s refusal of a flexible work request seemed justified, until the Fair Work Commission found a critical procedural requirement had been overlooked.

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How overtime pay works

Overtime is work performed outside an employee’s ordinary hours.

Work during meal breaks: is it overtime?

Are you required to pay employees overtime rates if they work through their lunch break?

Question: What are the rules on when to apply overtime penalty rates?

Curious about when overtime penalty rates apply? Our Workplace Advice Line recently broke down the key triggers and how to correctly calculate overtime under awards and enterprise agreements.

Understand the new right to disconnect laws

From 26 August 2024, employees will have the right to disconnect from work communications outside of working hours.

Worker loses request to work from home permanently

A bank employee who requested to work from home permanently for fear of contracting COVID has lost her request to permanently work from home, with the Fair Work Commission finding her application "simply unreasonable".

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Can overtime work be refused on WHS grounds?

Can an employee refuse to work overtime during the Christmas-New Year period on WHS grounds?

Mastering Flexible Work Requests in your Workplace

With changes to the FWA now in full force, employers must follow strict steps when managing flexible work requests or risk intervention by the FWC.