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On 1 July 2019, the amended form of Part 9.4AAA of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Corporations Act), which sought to provide whistleblowers with greater protection than its predecessor, came into force. These amendments also repealed the specific whistleblowing protections in the Banking Act 1959 (Cth), Insurance Act 1973 (Cth), Life Insurance Act 1995 (Cth) … Read more
It’s the final Asia EPI e-bulletin of the year, and what a year it has been! Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month covers: the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Singapore, which considers what amounts to confidential information and what a business must show to claim damages for a breach; the changes … Read more
In our latest podcast, our Employment and IR team reviewed some of the interesting aspects in the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020, following its release last week. We discuss the media reaction to date, the union demerger proposal, the impact of the changes to casual employees, criminal sanctions for … Read more
Employers have had to respond to continual changes to Covid-19-related rules and guidance over the last year, and the last month has been no exception. Of course the biggest change has been the end of the national lockdown in England and the introduction of a revised tier system from 2 December 2020, but employers also … Read more
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has opened a consultation exercise into the use of non-compete provisions, and potentially other forms of restrictive covenants, by employers in contracts with their staff, including workers and other forms of atypical arrangements. This is the second time in the last few years that the Government has … Read more
The European Court of Justice has ruled that employers have to look both backwards and forwards from an individual dismissal to determine whether the threshold number of 20 redundancies to trigger information and consultation obligations is met over a 90 day period. The ruling conflicts with the UK forward–looking approach which focuses on the employer’s … Read more
Fair Work Act changes for the COVID recovery Following a gestation of seven months, the Workplace Relations Reform: Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 has finally reached the Federal Parliament. In the cold light of day, and relative to the size and scope of the matters considered by the working … Read more
The Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination against a person on the ground that they are undergoing or have undergone a process for gender reassignment. The employment tribunal has ruled for the first time that this protection extends to individuals who describe themselves as non-binary or gender-fluid, as it is sufficient that they are at some … Read more
We know that ‘Project Life Agreements’ have previously been pursued by industry as a remedy to this issue, and calls for reform were supported by the Federal Government. But will the IR Working Groups reach agreement? Will we see this as a feature of the soon to be announced reforms? In our sixth article in … Read more
