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Your overseas service counts – the little-known long service leave entitlement for international employees

29/10/2020
Long service leave is an established entitlement in Australia and while it is accepted that moving between states doesn’t break an employee’s service it is not widely known that time overseas can often count towards an employee’s service.   The law The key provision is section...

Pregnancy and parental discrimination in the modern workforce

29/10/2020

Pregnancy discrimination has long been illegal in Australia and it is one form of discrimination that society rejects most strongly. However, notwithstanding this rejection, there is still significant amounts of pregnancy discrimination in the workforce.

Illegal stand downs and compensation

29/10/2020
When the COVID pandemic came to Australia and state and territory governments introduced restrictions businesses were forced to stop or limit trading. This has a flow on effect to employees who faced the prospect of reduced hours, stand downs or redundancy. In response, the Commonwealth Government...