Browsing: Employment law

The contracting and casual employment changes in the latest round of IR reforms will increase recruiters' administrative workload in some areas, but reduce it in others, a workplace lawyer says. read more

• Experienced people leader joins Alexander Appointments
  
• Employers might get a say in SJSP test case
  
• Court caps legal costs in Hays class action read more

• Seek ads fall 2.5% but demand for ICT workers finally rises
  
• Court approves final settlement in Hays class action
  
• Property industry salaries stabilise as labour shortage eases read more

A CEO's strong "negative reaction" to a candidate's referee provided an understandable basis for not hiring him, a commission has ruled in rejecting his victimisation claim. read more

• Second 'same job same pay' application filed with FWC
  
• Talent wins prestigious Deloitte award
  
• Lack of response still the biggest complaint about recruitment industry read more

• Multinational recruitment companies facing tax audit
  
• Applyflow gives up on recruitment tech and goes mining
  
• "Unethical" agent must now seek permission for every dismissal claim read more

A union has today lodged the first 'same job same pay' (SJSP) application, at a Queensland coal mine where WorkPac supplies on-hire labour. read more

It was "disingenuous" of Adecco to claim it didn't dismiss an on-hire worker, after it removed her from a host site due to misconduct, then made no attempt to find her other work, the Fair Work Commission has ruled. read more

In an important case for the recruitment industry, Programmed has won a long-running dispute over its liability to pay long service leave to an on-hired worker, who became a Randstad employee after an account changed hands. read more

Hays has offered up to $1.3 million to settle the long-running class action brought against it by a group of on-hire coal miners. read more