Specialty Group: Employment and Labor Law

Penny Brooke, Senior Associate, considers the refusal of the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission to approve the Coles Store Team Enterprise Agreement 2014-17 after Coles failed to prove that employees were better off ...

By Professor Andrew Stewart, Legal Consultant and Shauna Roeger, Law Clerk It is generally accepted that where a contract of employment has no agreed duration and makes no provision for termination, the common law will ...

By Dayna M. Steinfeld The general rule in employment law is that employees can be terminated from employment without reason or cause, so long as employers provide proper notice of termination, or pay in lieu of notice. ...

By Steven M. Schneider and Jessica Iglesias The Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently issued its final rule concerning the controversial “persuader rule” that greatly expands employers’ obligations under t ...