The precise calculation of the six-month period was the determining factor. According to the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, ...

Under Australia's Fair Work Act, there is a six-year statutory limitation on underpayment claims, which means staff like Ms Jones, who left Aegis 12 months before the cut-off, will be paid nothing.

Fiona Macdonald appeared as an expert witness in the Fair Work Commission's hearing on the review of the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award. The Fair Work ...

There have been a host of changes to the Fair Work Act in recent years that are designed to make enterprise bargaining more accessible and to help rectify situations like yours. Sarah Queenan ...

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) recently dealt with a jurisdictional challenge in an unfair dismissal case involving a casual ...

Most working Australians now have the "right to disconnect" under the Fair Work Act. This means you would be within your rights not to answer a call from your boss about something non-urgent on ...

Philadelphia's AFL-CIO leaders marked an important anniversary in labor rights, as the Fair Work Week laws passed five years ago on Tuesday. The legislation has been credited with stabilizing ...

The FWO alleges these comments and actions were attempts to coerce the AFL into firing McBurney, in violation of sections 340 and 355 of the Fair Work Act. These sections make it unlawful to ...

were in response to the Albanese government’s new gender equity objective for the Fair Work Act. But ASU national secretary Emeline Gaske said that FWC’s proposal “will undermine Labor’s ...

There may also be types of religious discrimination in the workplace, including that which occurs between co-workers, which are not covered by the Fair Work Act. At the federal level, complaints ...