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Employment law and labour law articles and thought leadership, podcasts, videos and webinars from expert sources across the legal world. Explore articles covering topics such as Discrimination, Employee Benefits and Compensation, Health and Safety, Unfair/Wrongful Dismissal, Whistleblowing, Employment Rights, Outsourcing and Redundancy.

Not acceptable in any workplace": The Fair Work Commission condemns a worker's "egregious" sexual remarks over two-way radio

Reminder to employers of the importance of well-drafted, tailored policies and training modules with respect to sexual harassment in the workplace.

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Piper Alderman

Commission finds dismissal harsh despite "racist" comments at toolbox meeting

Timely reminder of the need to afford employees procedural fairness before deciding whether to terminate an employee's employment.

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

Termination lessons from Amazon's email blunder, layoff of 16,000 jobs

When technology drives organisational change, HR must carefully manage timing, messaging & communication to prevent leaks or misinformation.

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Swaab

Unfair Dismissals: Reasonable Redeployment Opportunities

When making an employee redundant, an employer must first follow a proper and fair procedure, including a reasonable assessment of redeployment opportunities available.

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Coleman Greig Lawyers

Terminating an employee based on their inability to perform the inherent requirements of a job

Australia Employment

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Coleman Greig Lawyers

Is The Proposed 10-Year Ban On NRL Players Involved In R360 An Enforceable Restraint Of Trade?

Australia Employment

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Holding Redlich

QCAT finds nurse guilty of professional misconduct after criminal convictions

Australia Employment

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Hall Payne Lawyers

Forced To Quit? The Hidden Cost Of Poor Investigations.

Australia Employment

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Clifford Gouldson Lawyers

Redundancy Case Update - What Employers Need To Know

Australia Employment

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McCarthy Durie Lawyers

Redundancy payments and early termination payments should not be included in PAWE

Australia Employment

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McCabes

Dismissed by ChatGPT: The decent thing to do?

Australia Employment

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Clifford Gouldson Lawyers

Cause And Consequence: Show Cause Letters In The Landscape Of The Workplace

Australia Employment

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Bartier Perry

Redundancy Under Scrutiny: High Court Sets New Standards

Australia Employment

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MDC Legal

Uber Driver To Be Paid "Lost Pay" Following Unfair Deactivation

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

ASIC's Updated Guidance On Digital Assets

Australia Finance

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Sophie Grace Pty Ltd

Essential ESG: Episode 26 – Insights From The 2025 UN Forum On Business And Human Rights

Australia Environment

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Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Employment Relations Podcast #46 – Safety In The Workplace: Drug And Alcohol Testing And Policies

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

The Papercut Decision And The Current Position On WFH

Australia Employment

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Swaab

Podcast: SMSFs With CGW – What Is Happening With Division 296 Tax? (Tax On Large Superannuation Balances)

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Cooper Grace Ward

Redundancy rules reconsidered: Landmark High Court ruling on redeployment

HC ruled employers must consider redeploying redundant staff into contractor roles where reasonable, broadening redeployment duties under the FWA.

Australia Employment

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Gilchrist Connell

SafeWork NSW and the High Court are reshaping redundancy. Are you ready?

While psychosocial risks in a restructure can't be eliminated, they must be minimised through careful planning, communication & compliance.

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McCabes

Employees over contractors: the redeployment preference?

Under the FW Act, a dismissal will not be unfair if the dismissal is a case of genuine redundancy.

Australia Employment

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Bartier Perry

Employment Law In Australia - An Overview

Australia remains to be a strong and stable environment in which to do business.

Australia Employment

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Lewis Silkin

High Court clarifies scope of genuine redundancy under the Fair Work Act

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Barry Nilsson

Federal Court delivers historic $90 million fine to Qantas for 1,820 illegal dismissals

Australia Employment

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Cooper Grace Ward

High Court redundancy ruling allows FWC to question if all possible redeployment options have been considered

Australia Employment

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Kennedys

What International Employers Should Know About The High Court Of Australia's Decision On Searching For Redeployment Options In Redundancy

Australia Employment

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Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Major rethinking on redundancy: High Court clarifies redeployment obligations for ‘genuine redundancy'

Australia Employment

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Cooper Grace Ward

Dismissal Decisions And Mental Health Issues – What Do You Need To Be Aware Of As An Employer?

Australia Employment

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Pointon Partners

High Court ruling reshapes redundancy considerations for employers

Australia Employment

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Holding Redlich

Employee Awarded $305k In Record Sexual Harassment Payout

Australia Employment

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Swaab

High Court raises the bar on genuine redundancy: Implications of Helensburgh Coal v Bartley & Ors

Australia Employment

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Mellor Olsson Lawyers

Federal Court confirms reasonable notice term may be implied into employment contracts

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

High Court ruling reshapes redundancy considerations for employers

Redeployment opportunities in the context of redundancy are not only confined to vacant roles.

Australia Employment

HR

Holding Redlich

Employee Awarded $305k In Record Sexual Harassment Payout

The importance of taking proactive measures to prevent harassment from taking place.

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Swaab

High Court raises the bar on genuine redundancy: Implications of Helensburgh Coal v Bartley & Ors

HC ruled employers' redeployment duties may include replacing contractors with employees, broadening "genuine redundancy" limits.

Australia Employment

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Mellor Olsson Lawyers

Federal Court confirms reasonable notice term may be implied into employment contracts

Courts may imply reasonable notice of termination if no written employment contract exists.

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

FWC says fighting in the workplace can be justified

Australia Employment

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Kennedys

Rethinking Redeployment In The Work-From-Home Era

As flexible and remote working become a fixture of modern working life, employers are grappling with how these arrangements affect redundancy and the consideration of other acceptable employment.

Australia Employment

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Ius Laboris

Medical examinations and lawful directions reaffirmed: when non-compliance constitutes serious misconduct

Ability of employers to direct employees to undergo medical examinations and clarifies when employee refusal can amount to serious misconduct.

Australia Employment

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Cooper Grace Ward

Nurse awarded $350,000 in compensation plus penalties following successful adverse action and discrimination claims

The case reinforces the critical importance of procedural fairness and of understanding protected attributes and workplace rights during disciplinary and termination processes.

Australia Employment

CG

Cooper Grace Ward

From final warning to Fair Work Commission – the risks of internal investigations for employee misconduct

Murphy v Xavier College Limited [2025] FWC 1284

Australia Employment

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Cooper Grace Ward

Is an employee's secret recording of a workplace conversation a valid reason for dismissal?

Australia Employment

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Holman Webb Lawyers

Hiring and Firing Essentials for Healthcare Providers

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LegalVision

Adaptation is more than work history

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McCabes

Michael Byrnes is quoted in the article, "How to navigate misconduct investigations involving mental health challenges".

Australia Employment

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Swaab

When workplace policies become enforceable legal obligations with significant risk: Lessons from the High Court's decision in Elisha v Vision Australia

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

Termination of Employment – Getting It Right the First Time

Australia Employment

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Rostron Carlyle Rojas

A Shake-Up of an Old Rule: Damages for Psychiatric Injury for Terminating an Employee's Employment

Australia Employment

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MDC Legal

A new era – botched disciplinary and dismissal processes can give rise to psychological injury claims says the High Court of Australia

Australia Employment

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Bartier Perry

Can I Dismiss Employees Whose Jobs Have Been Replaced by AI?

Australia Employment

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LegalVision

Case summary: Warren Power v Lyndons Pty Ltd T/A Lyndons [2023] FWC 1060 (5 May 2023) – Unsuccessful unfair dismissal claim due to harassment

Australia Employment

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Carroll & O'Dea

When is alternative employment suitable? Commission considers the scope of section 120

Australia Employment

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Piper Alderman

Is it reasonable to redeploy employees to roles occupied by contractors?

Australia Employment

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Holman Webb Lawyers

What Employers need to know about Closing Loopholes – More changes to Australia's workplace laws (Part 1)

Australia Employment

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Carroll & O'Dea

Two birds, one RTO: Are return-to-office mandates ‘dismissals in disguise'?

Australia Employment

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Swaab

The importance of getting redundancies right

Australia Employment

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Bartier Perry

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