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- Lifting the Sydney Fog – “No, you can’t work at home. I need you in here at Work”
- More B2B Compliance from 1 July 2021 – New $100,000 Threshold for Consumer Guarantee
- Can Employers Require COVID-19 Vaccination? Not Yet!
- High Income Threshold and Compensation Cap for Unfair Dismissal Applications – 1 July 2021
- Two Strikes and You’re Out – Short Term Rental Code
- When helping your kids get into the property market can backfire
- First-Home Buyers, stamp duty relief and parental loans that become gifts
- The Folau Saga: Contractual Obligations and Freedom of Religion
- Your Intellectual Property rights were less protected from 13 September 2019!
- “She’ll Be Sweet” Says Queensland Sugar – As Long As It Serves The Interests Of The Members As A Whole
- Work Safety
- Signing Formal Documents Remotely – New Rules
- Commercial Landlords COVID-19 Land Tax Concession and Deferral
- Post-employment restraints not enforceable given employer repudiatory conduct
- Record-breaking penalties for employers not keeping records
- Are managers covered by modern awards?
- Blurred Lines: the difference between an independent contractor and an employee
- New whistleblower laws and how to protect public and large proprietary companies
- Managing Negative Online Reviews
- High Income Threshold and Compensation Cap for Unfair Dismissal Applications – 1 July 2019
- Left out of a Will, want to put it right?
- NO SATISFACTION FOR QUEENSLAND CLUB OWNERS
- Going Up: Buying high rise strata just got better, or did it?
- Proposed Changes to the NSW Strata Building Bond and Inspections Scheme
- Supercharge your Death Benefits
- What a Waste: Small Business Unfair Contracts
- A Thorne in two Binding Financial Agreements?
- If It Quacks Like a Duck, It’s Probably Ms Duck
- Beware the Ides of Short Term Rentals – Short Term Lettings and Property Investors
- A Cladding Tinderbox: Will your High Rise Insulate or Immolate?
- Binding Death Benefits and Loss of Capacity and Powers of Attorney
- Employees Steal the Business – But Employers get it back
- Casual gets Annual Leave
- New Obligations: Mandatory Data Breach Notification Laws
- The Art of the Non-Deal
- Digital Assets and Estate Matters: What happens to your online data after your death?
- Review of Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission legislation
- Contesting a will? Family Provision Claims
- New EU Data Protection Laws – GDPR
- Case Note: Patterson v Humfrey [2014] WASC 446
- Monstered by Wayward Director – Oppressive Conduct sees Deadlocking Director forced to Sell at Fair Value
- Resolving Shareholder Deadlocks: oppressive and unfairly prejudicial conduct
- Uber Drivers: Independent Contractors or Employees?
- Changes to the NSW Land Tax Legislation – unintended consequence for all Trusts which own residential property
- Getting your affairs in order – what is an appointment of Enduring Guardian
- Christmas Party Survival Guide for Employers: how to plan effectively and reduce vicarious liability
- Planning ahead – What is a Power of Attorney?
- Bad Advice and Willful Blindness – Personal Liability for Third Party Advisors
- High Income Threshold and Compensation Cap for Unfair Dismissal Applications – 1 July 2017
- Tax Efficient or Efficiently Taxed? The Hidden Questions that Show We Might Be Too Trusting in Trusts
- Invest Now or Cry Later: Stamp Duty Discounts for Investors abolished in Victoria
- 10 Times the Fines, 10 Times the Hassle: The Fair Work Amendment Bill 2017
- Collective Sale and Renewal
- Change of Trustee Concession Rules
- Comply or Face the Consequences: Not-for-Profit on Notice
- Going for PBI? Want DGR status? There are new guidelines from the ACNC
- Does your Charity have the Tick?
- Conversion from Company Title to Strata Title – Is it Right for Your Company?
- Can I share a lawyer’s trade secret? How NOT to enforce post-employment restraints!
- Workplace Watchdog Rips Down the Corporate Veil
- Mandatory Data Breach Notification Law – What you need to know
- New Penalty Rates – When do they apply?
- Fair Work Ombudsman is the New MythBuster
- “We all support ISIS” Facebook sarcasm gets baggage handler sacked and 8 weeks pay for unfair dismissal
- Managing Conflicts of Interest for Charities
- Swearing in the Workplace: the F-Word is ‘Fired’
- You Can’t Pick Your Family, But They Can Claim Your Estate
- Database Raid: Party-Party for the Raider
- It’s all up in the AirBnB
- Work Experience Cost him his Sight and Cost the Employer a $240,000 Fine
- A party in liquidation may not be entitled to progress claims under the Security of Payments legislation
- ATO Dragoons Prestige Property Purchasers to be Tithing Tax Collectors
- Casually Counting Towards Entitlements
- Your Honour, ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’ are the Grounds for Dismissal
- Don’t Lose Sleep Over Noisy Neighbours!
- Employers generally like to get annual leave off their books
- Is Mr Fluffy in your Roof?
- Not too Drunk to Get the Sack
- Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC)
- Would Sir or Madam like a Contract “to go” with those Mutual Wills?
- High Income Threshold and Compensation Cap for Unfair Dismissal Applications – 1 July 2016
- Protection for Small Businesses against Unfair Contract Terms from November 2016
- Statutory limitation periods in child abuse cases removed in NSW
- Last Minute Asset Protection: Not So Super
- ‘Chucking a Sickie’? Just Chuck it or Get Chucked!
- High Court Triangulates Labour Hire Sham Contracting
- ‘Reinbeers’ at Christmas Parties – What can go wrong for employers when alcohol is involved?
- Engaging a labour hire employee – the Fair Work Commission’s view on ‘outsourcing’
- Preliminary discovery a new weapon for the status quo
- Caravan Park Operators On Notice
- Natural or Legal Disaster? When a determination is not a determination and the wheels of justice are slow to turn.
- New anti-bullying policy no defence: same culture, same consequence.
- High Income Threshold and Compensation Cap for Unfair Dismissal Applications – 1 July 2015
- Buying a property with quality defects – what are your rights?
- Employer gets access to Employee email and iphone
- SMALL BUSINESSES WIN SUPPORT FOR UNFAIR CONTRACT PROTECTIONS
- RESTRAINTS OF TRADE IN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS: KNOW YOUR PRODUCT
- Outdated Award Awareness – inefficiency costs $4.8 million
- DISAGREEMENT OR DISMISSAL: ARE DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT STYLES A CAUSE OF CONSTRUCTIVE DISMISSAL?
- A $3 MILLION LESSON IN EMPLOYER OBLIGATIONS
- Unfair or Just uncooperative? Dismissal for Unresolved Employee Conflict Was Fair.
- Workplace Issues in 2015
- GOOD FAITH FRANCHISING KICKS IN ON 1 JANUARY
- HOLIDAY LETTINGS UNLAWFUL IN SOME RESIDENTIAL AREAS
- 38th JP Morgan Corporate Challenge
- Wills, SMSFS and Binding Death Benefit Nominations – Get Yours in Line
- BEFORE YOU BUY – DUE DILIGENCE
- JP Morgan Corporate Challenge Event
- CLEARING THE FOG FOR PROSPECTIVE RESIDENTS – IMPORTANT CHANGES TO RETIREMENT VILLAGE LAW
- Building defects – liability of the builder to a subsequent owner
- Poached Talent Fried on Costs
- CASUAL APPROACH TO LOADING TRIGGERS $50K IN FINES
- Does your company own your CEO’s emails?
- Restraining ex-employees from poaching clients
- BYO Devices – The risk and trends
- SMALL PAYOUT FOR WORKPLACE HARASSMENT
- BIG SLUG FOR EMPLOYERS: PENALTY UNITS INCREASE BY OVER 50%
- Dismissed for Depression – Accountants admit to taking adverse action
- NOT SO JOLLY IN THE JOLLY SEASON
- Defence Contractor under Fire in Porn Sackings
- PARALLEL IMPORTATION – DOUBLE THE TROUBLE
- PAY NOW OR PAY LATER (Update – 1 July 2014)