by Quinns Blog | Dec 9, 2020 | Employment and Human Resources News, Newsletter Features
What are the Minimum Entitlements to Compassionate Leave? An employee (including a casual employee) is entitled to two days of compassionate leave to spend time with a member of their immediate family or household who has sustained a life-threatening illness or...
by Quinns Blog | Dec 2, 2020 | Employment and Human Resources News, Newsletter Features
An employee has been granted a ruling for unfair dismissal by the Fair Work Commission despite threatening to kill his manager; emphasising the importance of seeking an employee’s version of events. The Commission unveiled that in February 2019, a Foamex Group...
by Quinns Blog | Dec 2, 2020 | Legal News, Newsletter Features
What if someone signed a will, pretending to be you? What if you made a will but did not have the legal capacity to do so? These are two important questions we will discuss in today’s article, following on from our previous articles on safeguarding your will from...
by Quinns Blog | Nov 25, 2020 | Employment and Human Resources News, Newsletter Features
A recent landmark case from the High Court has answered the question: ‘What is a ‘day’ of personal leave in the Fair Work Act 2009?’ The Court determined that a day of personal leave is calculated as one 26th of an employee’s ordinary hours of work each year....
by Quinns Blog | Nov 25, 2020 | Legal News, Newsletter Features
As with last week’s article on safeguarding your estate via a will, when we talk of contesting a will, we often focus on the perspective of the estate and the negative implications. It is perceivably a bad situation; jeopardising the value of the estate’s assets and a...
by Quinns Blog | Nov 18, 2020 | Employment and Human Resources News, Newsletter Features
What you need to know about Personal Leave This week, we will delve into the topic of personal/carer’s leave and how it operates under Australian workplace law. What is Personal or Carer’s Leave? Personal/carer’s leave, compassionate leave and family and domestic...
