If a worker in Australia is unfairly dismissed, he or she has 14 days from the date of dismissal to bring an unfair dismissal claim before Fair Work Australia. Small business employers (with fewer than 15 employees) are be able to seek immunity from these claims.An employee of a small business employer will only be [...]

There are many reasons why you might need an Employment Solicitor. You may feel that you have been treated unfairly at work, or have been accused of something that you haven’t done. You might have to make redundancies and want to know how to go about it. You might want to change some of your [...]

Employment law is designed to protect employees from unfair dismissal, maltreatment in the workplace and a host of other grievances. And so it should. But what about the rights of the employer when faced with a ‘difficult’ employee?
Employers often feel helpless when faced with this situation, particularly if the employee has not actually broken any [...]

The case of Bell v The Spirit Group Ltd [2005] concerned a claim for unfair and constructive dismissal. The employment tribunal held that a series of acts, by the employer, cumulatively amounted to repudiation of the employee’s contract of employment.
The employee, employment laws, was a manager of a national chain of pubs and [...]

In Dockerty v FM Fabrications, Dockerty claimed that he had been unfairly dismissed by his employers, FM Fabrications. The Employment Tribunal held in, employment laws, favour of Dockerty and ruled that the redundancy process by which Dockerty had been chosen for dismissal was unfair resulting in an unfair dismissal.
resulted had the proper [...]