Employers Take On More Under New Scheme
“Suitable” employment for injured workers
Disputes and Litigation
Mitigate your Potential Exposure I recently, together with DW Fox Tucker colleagues Mark Minarelli and Girish Rao, presented to the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects on the age old topic…
WorkCover: The Big Reform
After Minister Rau famously described the current workers compensation scheme as “buggered”, the Government announced that the WorkCover scheme would be replaced by a Return to Work Scheme effective…
Navigating the Workplace in 2015
Recent Court Decisions and Lessons for Employers
Supreme Court Clarifies when an Employee is Absent and when an Employee is on Leave
The Full Bench of the Supreme Court, in a majority judgment, in Flinders Ports Pty Ltd v Woolford [2015] SASCFC 6 has clarified what it means to be on “unpaid leave”. This decision involved an…
Receivership: Post Appointment Employee Entitlements
To pay or not to pay? That is the question
Workplace and Employment Law - Significant Events & Predictions
Significant events in 2014 and predictions for 2015
Alert: Appointments Announced to Workers Compensation and Employment Tribunals
The State Government yesterday announced in the South Australian Government Gazette the following two new appointments to the Workers Compensation Tribunal and the Employment Tribunal: Deputy…
Strike First To Go
The Coalition’s Fair Work Amendment (Bargaining Processes) Bill 2014 was recently read for a second time in the House of Representatives. The Bill seeks to introduce changes to the bargaining process…
Workers’ Compensation Reform in South Australia
The Return to Work Bill 2014 (SA) is currently under debate in State Parliament. The Bill is intended to deliver the deepest reform of workers’ compensation in South Australia since 1986. The…
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