It is most important that employers make sure they
understand what wages they need to pay their employees, including penalty rates
and payments for public holidays.
This issue has recently been highlighted with a restaurant
chain being obliged to reimburse staff $21,700.00 for underpaying employees for
their Christmas day entitlements.
Many underpayments are inadvertent but it is important to
ensure that restaurants comply with their minimum obligations under the
Australian Workplace laws.
Employees who wish to ensure they comply with...
Monday, 25 July 2016
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Sticks and stones may break bones but names can get you sacked
Many employers have policies or
codes of practice to govern the relationships between employees.
Employees who abuse their
colleagues or gossip about them can face dismissal as a sanction because what
they say is a breach of the employer’s polices or codes.
The Fair Work Commission recently
heard two unfair dismissal applications that related to misconduct based on
what employees said.
In Sayers v CUB Pty Ltd [2016] FWC 3428, the Commission found that a
dismissal based on an employee swearing and racially abusing a colleague...
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