Australia: A note to retailers on award coverage and Christmas

There’s less than a month to go before Santa arrives and the Boxing Day Sales follow, and this is a time when retailers flex-up by employing casual labour, increasing the hours of their current part-time contingent or politely asking that their full-timers work “reasonable” additional hours.

With this comes the minefield of the General Retail Industry Award and the potential for “inadvertent” award breaches.

A few tips to get you through the season, and make sure […]

By | December 14th, 2014 ||

United States: NLRB Holds Employees May Use Employer Email For Union Organizing And Other Non-Business Purposes

The National Labor Relations Board this morning released its aptly-named Purple Communications decision, 361 NLRB No. 126, available here. Last May, the Board announced that in connection with its review of the administrative law judge’s decision in Purple Communications, it would re-examine whether employers may bar employee use of company email for union organizing and other collective purposes. In its 2007 Register Guard decision, the NLRB permitted employers to bar such communications, holding that […]

By | December 13th, 2014 ||

Australia: Podcast: Damian O'Connor on MyMelbourne with Glenn Ridge on superannuation from a taxation perspective

Damian O’Connor of our Melbourne office discusses superannuation from a taxation perspective on MyMp 1377AM radio show “MyMelbourne with Glenn Ridge”.

Click here to download the audio file (MP3).

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By | December 13th, 2014 ||