A plumbing business has been fined $100,000, and its director $21,500, after it failed to pay overtime to an apprentice and meet its record-keeping obligations. The penalty was high, relative to the underpayment, because of the employer’s dreadful treatment of a young apprentice.
Since being handed down on 27 February 2017, in the Full Court of the Family Court, the decision of Britt & Britt has had the potential to significantly impact the way that evidence in property matters, relating to family violence, is treated and therefore, how it’s admitted in evidence.
Your business tweets terrifically, is on fire with Facebook and ingenious on Instagram but when it comes to Snapchat, you’re in the dark. So what is Snapchat, and should you be jumping on board?
When a tenant decides to exercise an option, the lease usually contains a mechanism for how their rent is to be determined, and once this is determined, would be payable from the start of the option lease…But what happens in situations where the rent review provisions are deemed void under the Retail Leases Act?
This year sees Coleman Greig Lawyers celebrate our 90th anniversary as Western Sydney’s leading law firm. With such an outstandingly rich timeline behind us, the firm is set to celebrate with a year-long walk down memory lane.
In a recent Queensland District Court decision, Robinson v Lorna Jane (Judge Koppenol, 3 November 2017), Ms Robinson made a common law claim for psychological and physical injuries, which she claimed arose from her employment between July and December 2012 as the manager of a Lorna Jane store.
In a recent Fair Work Commission decision (Eather v Whitehaven Coal, Deputy President Sams, 1 January 2018), the FWC had no sympathy for an employee whose employment was terminated when he recorded 18mcg of cannabinoids, compared to the Australian Standard of 15mcg as the maximum allowable.
Employers have been put on notice to take a more cautious and methodical approach to consultation with employees before redundancies after the Fair Work Commission reasserts the importance of proper consultation processes.
Penrith LGA is currently one of the hardest-hit areas in the state with regard to reports of domestic violence. Unfortunately, Penrith is not alone in these numbers – with the neighbouring Blacktown area showing the highest number of domestic violence incidents in NSW: with 2083 in the year up until March 2017.
The tension between traditional employment law frameworks and the gig economy has come to the fore once again after the Fair Work Commission holds that an Uber driver is not an employee.
When entering into a leasing contract, rent is an essential term – and must be paid on time by the tenant as part of the tenancy agreement. But what happens when your tenant stops paying rent?
In a recent case, the FWC granted its first interim order issued in its anti-bullying jurisdiction, effectively issuing an injunction to stop an employer from proceeding with a workplace investigation. This case demonstrates that dealing with a bullying complaint in a fair way is highly desirable to avoiding external intervention.
The term “without prejudice” is one of the most used and abused legal phrases. It is also misunderstood by many which is unsurprising, as the
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