Browsing: Casual employment

After an exhausting 2021 filled with people issues, what new and evolving HR challenges can recruitment leaders expect to face next? Watch this webcast to find out. read more

Conversion rights that were intended to give stability and certainty to regular casual employees have instead created an enormous administrative burden and a communications nightmare, recruitment leaders say. read more

Employers have less than two weeks to assess whether to offer permanent employment to their regular casual workforce, and it will be "very easy" to make mistakes when trying to comply with the new obligations, a lawyer says. read more

• Union abandons $16m WorkPac class action
  
• Agency swaps commissions for tailored motivators read more

• Labour hire licensee fails 'fit and proper person test'
  
• No casual claim extension regardless of "misrepresentation" read more

Two important disputes about contracting versus employment relationships are set to be determined by the High Court in coming weeks. Meanwhile, a review platform is targeting the contracting space to give recruiters better visibility of their success rates and redeployment. read more

The High Court has put an end to the "turbulent" case law involving casual claims for the past few years, restoring certainty to all employers and particularly labour hire providers. read more

The High Court has unanimously upheld WorkPac's appeal against a ruling that a casual employee should have received permanent entitlements. read more

• Overtime error results in $100k backpayments
  
• AMS, LiveHire partner on direct sourcing contract
  
• One-quarter of Gumtree jobseekers looking for side gigs read more

• Charterhouse GM moving on
  
• Worst of JobKeeper's end "now behind us", where to focus BD
  
• Border re-opening critical to easing talent shortages
  
• Visa programs in inquiry's spotlight
  
• High Court hearing WorkPac/Rossato appeal today read more