Employees are entitled to take paid personal leave when they are not fit for work due to personal illness or injury or if they need to provide care to an ill or injured member of their immediate family or household. Often, an employee may only require…
Redundancy and retrenchment are two terms that are sometimes confused by employers and employees. Redundancy occurs when a specific role is no longer required because of operational changes within a business.
Jewell Hancock Employment Lawyers is pleased to announce that our team has been recognised for their outstanding work in Employment Law in Australia.
Although many employees experience or witness bullying in the workplace, the avenues and options for employees are not well known. On National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence, we have detailed the options that employees have available to them in circumstances of workplace bullying. Bullying…
Public holidays are government set days or part-days where many businesses are closed for trade. Depending on which state or territory you live or work in, these holidays may fall at different times. Generally, an employee is entitled to be absent from work on a public…
Every International Women’s Day there is a lot of discussion around what women can and should do more of to achieve pay parity and equality in the workforce, but limited reflection on what employers are actively doing to help female employees achieve these things. Discussions often…
