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Welcome to Workplace Matters, your online resource for all things employment and safety.

On this page you will find our latest thinking in the form of alerts, publications, articles, opinions and podcasts. With our insights all in the one place, we aim to make it as easy as possible to find what you are looking for to support you in how you do business every day.

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26 March 2021 | Amended Omnibus Bill passed—What it means for casual employment

Our Workplace team highlights the key changes and considerations for employers related to casual employment, which will come into effect soon.
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19 March 2021 | The power to make lawful and reasonable directions in a COVID normal world

As Australia moves towards its COVID-19 vaccine roll out, we discuss employer obligations and what to look out for related to lawful and reasonable directions.
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1 March 2021 | The Evolving Workplace: Modern Slavery

Ian Bennett, Ben Gottlieb and Josephine Lennon discuss the five key facts you need to know about Modern Slavery, ahead of the 31 March reporting deadline.
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22 January 2021 | Proposed amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009

Our Workplace team review the proposed changes to the Fair Work Act 2009 set out in the recent Omnibus Bill that passed through Parliament in late-2020.
Written by Brendan Charles, Seamus Burke, Emma Gruschka, Ian Bennett, Ben Gottlieb, Ariel Curtis, Jessica Phillips, and Lawrence Leung.
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16 December 2020 | The Evolving Workplace: Employment & Safety - year in review

Roland Hassall and Bill Kritharas discuss key employment and safety developments in 2020, from WHS laws to the Productivity Commission's recommendations.
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26 November 2020 | The Evolving Workplace - Dreamworld incident - an insider's perspective

Jackson Inglis is joined by Barrister Craig Eberhardt who provides a unique perspective of the tragic Dreamworld accident following his involvement with the 2018 Coronial Inquest.
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15 October 2020 | One step closer to proposed amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009

Government is closer to revealing its much-anticipated workplace relations reforms, which we anticipate will have a significant impact on employers.
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14 October 2020 | The Evolving Workplace: Navigating the intersection between workplace laws and privacy laws

In this podcast we discuss reasonable and lawful directions to employees and the requirements that must be satisfied in order to collect personal and sensitive information.
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30 September 2020 | Ardent Leisure sentenced to record fine for 2016 Dreamworld incident

Ardent Leisure was fined $3.6 million, after pleading guilty to three breaches of workplace health and safety laws—The biggest fine in Queensland's history.
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10 September 2020 | New wage theft laws in Queensland

Wage theft is now a crime in Queensland following the successful passage of the Queensland Government's Criminal Code and Other Legislation (Wage Theft) Amendment Bill 2020.
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