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Hidden Liabilities In Contractor Arrangements
The High Court's Personnel Contracting decision fundamentally changed how businesses must assess worker relationships, revealing that ABNs and contractor agreements alone don't determine employment status. When the ATO or state revenue authorities reclassify these arrangements, businesses face retrospective liabilities across PAYG withholding, superannuation, and payroll tax that can transform healthy balance sheets into insolvency scenarios.
Australia Employment
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Worrells
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Workplace Investigations And Decision Makers: What Employers Can Learn From Totino v Metro Trains
The Full Court of the Federal Court has clarified critical procedural requirements for employers managing medical incapacity terminations and defending general protections claims. This landmark decision addresses when workplace relations advisers must give evidence in proceedings and whether show cause letters constitute unlawful threats under the Fair Work Act.
Australia Employment
GC
Gilchrist Connell
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No Vacancy? No Excuse: High Court Clarifies Reasonable Redeployment Considerations (Helensburgh Coal Pty Ltd v Bartley & Ors [2025] HCA 29)
The High Court's decision in Helensburgh Coal Pty Ltd v Bartley & Ors examines whether employers must consider restructuring their workforce arrangements, including labour hire and outsourcing, when assessing redeployment options during redundancies. This landmark ruling clarifies the Fair Work Commission's authority to scrutinize operational decisions and workforce composition when determining if a dismissal constitutes genuine redundancy under the Fair Work Act 2009.
Australia Employment
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Coleman Greig Lawyers
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Hidden Liabilities In Contractor Arrangements
The High Court's Personnel Contracting decision fundamentally changed how businesses must assess worker relationships, revealing that ABNs and contractor agreements alone don't determine employment status. When the ATO or state revenue authorities reclassify these arrangements, businesses face retrospective liabilities across PAYG withholding, superannuation, and payroll tax that can transform healthy balance sheets into insolvency scenarios.
Australia Employment
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Worrells
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Skilled Worker Salary Thresholds: What Sponsoring A Role Costs
If you want to sponsor a worker under the Skilled Worker route, you need to understand both the minimum salary requirements and the wider cost of sponsorship. Those rules sit on top of the general considerations that apply when hiring workers from overseas. For most new Skilled Worker applications, you must pay at least £41,700 per year or 100% of the going rate for the worker’s occupation code, whichever is higher.
Australia Employment
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LegalVision
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Health & Safety

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Flexible Work Requests - When Employee Safety Comes First
A recent Fair Work Commission decision confirms that employers may refuse flexible work requests where genuine workplace health and safety concerns exist. The case examined whether a council's requirement for two employees to be present at a visitor centre constituted reasonable business grounds for refusing a part-time remote work arrangement following incidents of aggressive public behavior.
Australia Employment
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Bartier Perry
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Psychosocial Risks Used As A Shield In Parental Leave Dispute
When an employee requested to extend her parental leave, her employer refused on the basis that her team was already working over capacity and facing burnout risks. The Fair Work Commission examined whether psychosocial risks to remaining staff members could constitute reasonable business grounds for refusing the extension request, ultimately granting only a modest extension rather than the full period sought.
Australia Employment
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Gilchrist Connell
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Employment Litigation/ Tribunals

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Workplace Investigations And Decision Makers: What Employers Can Learn From Totino v Metro Trains
The Full Court of the Federal Court has clarified critical procedural requirements for employers managing medical incapacity terminations and defending general protections claims. This landmark decision addresses when workplace relations advisers must give evidence in proceedings and whether show cause letters constitute unlawful threats under the Fair Work Act.
Australia Employment
GC
Gilchrist Connell
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Psychosocial Risks Used As A Shield In Parental Leave Dispute
When an employee requested to extend her parental leave, her employer refused on the basis that her team was already working over capacity and facing burnout risks. The Fair Work Commission examined whether psychosocial risks to remaining staff members could constitute reasonable business grounds for refusing the extension request, ultimately granting only a modest extension rather than the full period sought.
Australia Employment
GC
Gilchrist Connell
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