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Carly Fielding Promoted to Senior Associate
National Workplace Lawyers is pleased to announce that on 27 May 2011, Carly Fielding was promoted to the position of Senior Associate. Over the past 12 months, Carly has built on already strong relationships with her clients, and has not only shown great technical skill, but the important ability of communicating the law to clients in a very practical way. Congratulations Carly....
3 June 2011The Landmark Equal Remuneration Test Case Continues
On Monday 16 May 2011, the Full Bench of Fair Work Australia handed down part of its decision in the landmark Equal Remuneration Test Case (Equal Remuneration Case; Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union and others [2011] FWAFB 2700 (16 May 2011)). The test case concerns an application for an equal remuneration order under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) for employees of non-government employers in the social, community and disability services industry throughout Australia. The effect of the application is to raise the wages of affected employees above the wage rates in the modern Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010. The Full Bench has determined that an equal remuneration order should be made because there is not equal remuneration for men and women workers in the social and community services industry, for work of equal or comparable value in comparison with workers in the same industry...
2 June 2011The Victorian Government Legislates Against Bullying
While Occupational Health and Safety legislation and contracts of employment already contain obligations on employers to ensure that employees are not subjected to workplace bullying, the Victorian Government on 5 April 2011 introduced legislation to State Parliament to make it clear that serious bullying is a criminal offence carrying a penalty of up to 10 years in jail. The Crimes Amendment (Bullying) Bill 2011 (Vic) provides that threats and abusive words or acts can be a course of conduct that amounts to stalking, as can any other action that could reasonably be expected to cause physical or mental harm to the victim. The definition of “harm” caught by the offence includes self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Changes will be made to similar legislation to allow victims of serious workplace bullying to apply for intervention orders, thereby allowing a victim to seek an order to protect themselves against situations of serious bullying at an early stage. ...
12 May 2011