Posts tagged "casual employees"

Australian employers could face a new set of rules when converting casual employees to permanent workers and a fresh definition of casual work, under changes flagged by Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Burke.

McKenzie says conflict and zero-compromise behaviours must be relegated to pre-COVID IR history, where they belong.

Hiring contractors can seem like a great solution for small-to-medium businesses. However, there’s a problem with this approach.

These casual loading offset provisions reduce an employer's liability to pay permanent employment entitlements where a worker is mischaracterised.

A new survey finds many people living in share-housing in Victoria are facing a precarious future as a result of COVID-19.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten wants to enshrine casual conversion rights into law in a bid to help boost wages growth if elected.

A crackdown on superannuation and changes to the Fair Work Act have been passed in the final sitting week for the year in Canberra.

Claims about what is (or is not) casual employment and what is (or is not) happening to the sector is at the fore in debates about working conditions.

Labor says it will change the rules to abolish the $450 superannuation threshold if elected, a proposal that has been criticised by business groups.

The Federal Court of Australia has ordered logistics business Toll Transport to pay a worker more than $42,000 after finding the company was…

A recent Fair Work Commission ruling means Australian employers may now have to take casual work into account when calculating redundancy p…