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Does an employee’s absence on 12 months' unpaid parental leave affect the amount of redundancy pay payable on termination? 

When employment is terminated, can a car allowance be added to the rate of pay used to calculate accrued annual leave payments? Learn more about allowances here.

Some employers make over-award payments intending to compensate employees for the removal of certain entitlements. But there can be traps. Learn more here.

When a kitchen hand contracted salmonella poisoning from the café where she worked, she blamed her employer and was awarded more than $65K in damages. Read about where the business went wrong.

When a subcontractor’s employee was injured on a building site and the builder and subcontractor were hit with massive damages bills, the builder appealed. Read why the Court rejected the builder’s claims.

Does an apprenticeship count towards service if an employee took a break after completing his training?

Can you absorb prescribed award wage rate increases into existing over-award payments? Read an explanation of what employers are (and are not) allowed to do here.

Slips, trips and falls cause thousands of serious injuries every year, and the painful consequences extend to employers as well, in direct and hidden costs. A new guide can help prevent them.

When an employee becomes ill while on long service leave, is the employer obliged to allow the employee to take personal leave instead, and re-credit the long service leave?

An employee who injured her finger in a car park while retrieving work equipment successfully claimed workers’ compensation, with the NSW Personal Injury Commission ruling the car park as part of her workplace.