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2021 has been another turbulent year in the employment, industrial relations and safety space in Australia. We’re proud to have worked with our clients on some of their most challenging people issues including the development of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies, sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace, and underpayments. As we move into 2022 … Read more
Employers have just one month left to take action to comply with the new casual conversion provisions under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act). In this article, we provide a recap on the changes to casual conversion, key timeframes for employers, and the steps that employers must take before 27 September 2021. Read more
Today, the High Court of Australia handed down its long awaited decision in WorkPac Pty Ltd v Rossato & Ors [2021] HCA 23 and unanimously allowed an appeal from the Full Court of the Federal Court’s decision in WorkPac Pty Ltd v Rossato (2020) 278 FCR 179. While the decision did not provide clarity on … Read more
Where there is an ongoing investigation into the alleged misconduct of an employee, the employer wish to suspend an employee’s duties until the investigation is concluded. In Lengler Werner v Hong Kong Express Airways Ltd [2021] HKCFI 1333, the Court of First Instance (“CFI”) clarified the scope of an employer’s right under the Employment Ordinance … Read more
On 12 May 2021, Spain’s Official State Journal (Boletín Oficial del Estado, or BOE) published Royal Decree-Law 9/2021, of 11 May, which amends the recast Spanish Workers’ Statute Law, approved by Legislative Royal Decree 2/2015, of 23 October, which guarantees the labour rights of people who deliver for digital platforms (RDL 9/2021 or the Riders … Read more
On Friday the Supreme Court upheld the Employment Tribunal’s 2016 ruling in favour of two test claimants that, as Uber drivers, they were ‘limb (b)’ workers entitled to statutory holiday and minimum wage rights for their working time (including all the time spent in the agreed territory, logged into the app and ready and willing … Read more
In this Q and A Session, Herbert Smith Freehills Employment and Incentive specialists from the United States and the United Kingdom forecast the expected developments and pressing risks facing financial sector employers in 2021. Tyler Hendry, David Palmer and Tess Lumsdaine will be hosting a webinar to explore these issues in more detail on February … Read more
Businesses hiring agency workers must provide them with the same information about relevant vacancies as direct employees, but do not have to allow agency workers to apply for those vacancies on the same terms. The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 give agency workers a right, from day one of an assignment, to be informed by the … Read more
Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month covers: the updated requirements on stay permits and visitor visas in Indonesia following the easing of immigration restrictions on 1 October 2020; the grounds on which an employer can seek the dissolution of a trade union in Thailand and whether doing so amounts to an unfair … Read more
