Employment Workplace Relations

Director, Philip Brewin is a specialist in Workplace Relations and heads our Workplace Relations Work Group.

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Coca-Cola Amatil loses out on an unfair dismissal case

Phil Brewin, Accredited Specialist - Employment Law, provided insight for HC Online regarding Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) and an unfair dismissal case. For further queries about unfair dismissal, Fair Work Act or workplace relations, please contact our employment and workplace relations specialist...

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Employers: don’t have a restraint clause in your contracts of employment? All may not be lost.

A recent decision of the Federal Court in APT Technology Pty Ltd v  Aladesaye [2014] FCA 966 demonstrates that employees who attempt to use the confidential information of their former employers in their new business ventures can be restrained from doing so even if there was no formal restraint clause in the their contracts of employment with their former employers. When APT discovered that Mr Aladesaye had established a business in competition with its own (whilst still its employee) and was taking or using client lists and know how he...

Are your job ads breaching the Human Rights Act?

Phil Brewin (Accredited Specialist - Employment Law) provided insight for HC Online regarding job ads and whether the use of specific language breaches the Human Rights Act? For further queries about the Human Rights Act or workplace relations, please contact our employment and workplace relations specialist...