Change to casual employment
Change to Casual Employment On Friday 26 March 2021, the Fair Work Act 2009 (FWA) was amended to change workplace rights and obligations for casual employees. The changes were made by the Fair Work [...]
Wage theft legislation protects employees
New laws to protect employees from deliberate wage theft by an employer were introduced in September 2020 in Queensland. The new laws criminalise deliberate wage theft and also provide a simple, quick and low-cost process [...]
Wage theft now a crime in Queensland
On 9 September 2020, Queensland’s parliament passed the Criminal Code and Other Legislation (Wage Theft) Amendment Act 2020, which inserts wage theft into Queensland’s criminal legislation as an offence. The Act provides that [...]
Community Services Portable Long Service Leave Scheme
The Queensland Synod office have previously advised that the Queensland Government have passed legislation to create the Community Services Portable Long Service Leave Scheme. The scheme will apply to all workers who: perform [...]
Important information about accruing paid sick and carer’s leave
On 13 August 2020, the High Court of Australia handed down a decision clarifying how paid personal/carer's leave is accrued and taken under the National Employment Standards (NES). In the decision of Mondelez Australia Pty [...]
Fair Work Commission minimum wage increase
Last week the Fair work Commission (FWC) announced the new minimum wage increase to be 1.75 per cent. Unlike in previous years, the FWC has adopted a staggered approach to the minimum wage increase across [...]