Sexual harassment in the workplace

Sexual harassment is unfortunately still a common occurrence in the workplace. The Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) (Act) describes sexual harassment as any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature, it also makes sexual harassment in the workplace unlawful.  There are...

Managing confidential employee records – duties as an employer

As an employer, you should be aware that you owe your employees obligations in relation to any personal information they have disclosed to you. Information about an employee collected by an employer is considered personal information under the Privacy Act 1988...

2020 Vision – Our First Breakfast Briefing for the Year

Join us as we catch up on all the latest changes to employment law that you need to know for the year ahead, including updates to Modern Awards, enterprise agreement implementation and termination of employment. Wednesday, 19 February 2020 7.30am for breakfast with...

Our next Breakfast Briefing – 10 April 2019

Join us at The Glades on 10 April 2019 for our next BE Employment Law Breakfast Briefing.   Over a delicious breakfast, get up to speed on all that is happening in workplace relations in 2019: Modern Award variations, claims by casuals for leave entitlements, case law...

Next BE Breakfast Briefing

Our next BE Breakfast Briefing will be held on 24 October 2018 at The Glades.  Our topic is “The Challenges with Casuals” and we will consider the various issues arising from the use of casual labour, including casual conversion, casuals making claims for...