Posts tagged "casual worker classification"

"The noose continues to tighten around gig economy companies that insist they're not actually employing the people who work — and sometimes die — for them," writes Bernard Keane.

Christian Porter said the government's casual conversion IR reform offers employees a “very strong right”. But this is not the case at all.

Given these flaws, there will no doubt be resistance from employee groups and unions to this proposed definition of "casual employee".

A recent Federal Court ruling is driving concern among SME owners about hiring casual workers, a Roy Morgan survey has found.

A ruling from the Federal Court has confirmed long-term casual workers can dispute their status and seek payments for entitlements such as annual leave.

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.

A small construction business in South Australia has been ordered to pay a former worker 15 years’ worth of annual leave, after a Federal Ci…