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Helen Kowal’s arti­cle pub­lished in Source​able​.net | Final­ly, Bet­ter Build­ing Prac­tices are Being Enforced

Back in 2019, frus­trat­ed in my pro­fes­sion as to how many build­ing defects appear in mul­ti-storey res­i­den­tial build­ings short­ly after con­struc­tion lead­ing to mul­ti-mil­lions of dol­lars being spent on reme­di­al repairs, I spent the year inter­view­ing expert build­ing con­sul­tants as to their views on the state of play in con­struc­tion and…

FWCFB sheds light on the infor­ma­tion employ­ers are required to pro­vide employ­ees for an agree­ment to be gen­uine­ly agreed’

In the case of The Aus­tralian Work­ers’ Union v Skout Solu­tions Pty Ltd [2021] FWCFB 119, a Fair Work Com­mis­sion Full Bench (FWCFB) has pro­vid­ed fur­ther guid­ance on the infor­ma­tion an employ­er is required to pro­vide to employ­ees to ensure it has tak­en all rea­son­able steps to explain the terms of a pro­posed…

The Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment Announces Pro­posed Work­place Rela­tions Reforms

On 9 Decem­ber 2020, the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment intro­duced the Fair Work Amend­ment (Sup­port­ing Australia’s Jobs and Eco­nom­ic Recov­ery) Bill 2020 (the Bill) to Par­lia­ment which will seek to imple­ment reform to sev­er­al major ele­ments of Aus­trali­a’s indus­tri­al rela­tions laws. This arti­cle pro­vides a high-lev­el overview of some of the key points of…

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