Employment Law for the Time Poor

Aug 22 2024 40 ep. 31 mins 13

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A podcast from Piper Alderman's Employment Relations team where they discuss the important topics in employment law in Australia.

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#40 – Understanding the Australian Right to Disconnect

Aug 22 2024 34 mins

Employment Relations Podcast #40 – Understanding the Australian Right to Disconnect Authors: Emily Haar, Lucie Lawrence-Wall The “right to disconnect” is commencing for most national systems employers on 26 August 2024 (small businesses have a further 12 months to get ready). Does your organisation understand what this “right” actually is, and how it could impact your ope

#39 – Restraints on restraints! What the United States’ ban on non-compete clauses could mean for Australian businesses

Aug 19 2024 44 mins

The United States is planning to heavily restrict the use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts, and the Australian Government has released an issues paper discussing the subject in the Australian context. In this episode of Employment Law for the Time Poor, Emily Haar, Prof. Andrew Stewart and Dustin Grant discuss the current state of the law on post-employment restraints

#38 – Wage Theft: Go Directly to Jail?

May 19 2024 32 mins

One of the few constants in life and business is change. Come 1 January 2025, a significant shift will take place for national system employers when criminal wage theft provisions come into effect because of changes in the Closing Loopholes Reforms. But what does “wage theft” mean, and in what circumstances will criminal prosecution occur? In this episode of Piper Alderman’s

#37 – Closing Loopholes No. 2: Considering Complexities

Feb 11 2024 51 mins

February 2024 has been a big month for legislative change, particularly in the contentious arena of industrial relations. Seemingly out of nowhere, the Government announced it had done a deal on the remaining areas of proposed reform that did not make it into the Closing Loopholes Act 2023. Adding to the surprise, the Closing Loopholes No. 2 Bill contained significant and substanti

#36 – What does a psychosocially safe workplace look like?

Dec 19 2023 42 mins

Following the 2018 Boland Review into the model Work Health and Safety provisions, workplace psychosocial safety has squarely been on the policy agenda. Combined with recent changes as a result of the Respect@Work Report, the clear policy position, and expectation of society, is one of employers taking responsibility and being accountable for having workplaces that are both physic

#35 – The Governance of Decision Making in the Post-Qantas Environment

Oct 24 2023 40 mins

The recent High Court decision in Qantas v TWU [2023] HCA 27 focussed on the question of how the general protections in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) work in circumstances where employees did not presently have particular workplace rights (in that case the right to take industrial action), but would have those rights in the future if not for the adverse action being taken. While th

#34 – Do You See What I See? The Closing Loopholes Bill

Sep 11 2023 49 mins

In comments to the National Press Club on 31 August 2023, Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke said that the Closing Loopholes Bill will address four key “pillars”: wage theft, casual conversion, labour hire, and “employee-like workers”, and that the Bill would not “reach into every workplace”. While the Bill certainly deals with those four matters, there is so much

#33 - National WHS Update: Industrial Manslaughter Laws and the Prohibition of Insurance

May 18 2023 19 mins

Industrial manslaughter may soon be an offence in almost all Australian jurisdictions. Recent amendments in certain jurisdictions have also introduced the recommendation of the 2019 Boland Review to prohibit insurance and indemnities for WHS penalties. In this episode of Employment Law for the Time Poor, join Emily Haar, Partner, and Joseph Hyde, Associate, for a review of the cur

#32 – Addressing the Gender Pay Gap and Yet More Amendments to the Fair Work Act: What Employers Need to Know

Apr 02 2023 38 mins

International Women’s Day is observed internationally in March. In this episode of Employment Law for the Time Poor, join Professor Andrew Stewart, Consultant, and Emily Haar, Partner as they discuss recent amendments to federal legislation designed to address pay equity for women, including the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act and the recently passed Closing the Gender Pay Gap Act. T

#31 - Consultation: Who, What, Where, and How?

Mar 12 2023 39 mins

Organisations have legal obligations to consult with their staff in particular situations. But what does that actually mean? In this episode of Employment Law for the Time Poor, join Emily Haar, Partner and Emily Slaytor, Special Counsel in a discussion around the requirements to consult flowing from work health and safety legislation, Awards and Enterprise Agreements. They discuss