Employment Law - 83% Semester Exam Notes

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Notes covering all topics and used for exam. Table of contents below: Overview – Issue Spotting Chart .............................................................................................................................................. 2 Notes from revision seminar ......................................................................................................................................... 2 Tests .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Employee or Independent Contractor? ......................................................................................................................... 6 Is the employee a ‘casual’ employee? ......................................................................................................................... 11 NES – Summary ......................................................................................................................................................... 12 INTERACTION BETWEEN EK/NES/MA/EA .......................................................................................................... 14 NES Employee? .......................................................................................................................................................... 15 Rights under NES ....................................................................................................................................................... 15 NES – Maximum weekly hours? ................................................................................................................................ 16 NES – Flexible Work Request .................................................................................................................................... 19 NES – Less assessable topics ...................................................................................................................................... 22 NES – Casual Conversion Provisions ..................................................................................................................... 22 NES – Parental Leave ............................................................................................................................................. 24 NES – Personal/Carer’s/Compassionate Leave ...................................................................................................... 25 NES – Termination/Redundancy Pay ..................................................................................................................... 25 Minimum Wage Orders and Equal Remuneration ...................................................................................................... 27 Applicability of Modern Awards ................................................................................................................................ 27 Enterprise Agreements ................................................................................................................................................ 29 Commencing enterprise bargaining ............................................................................................................................ 36 Industrial Action ......................................................................................................................................................... 36 Unfair dismissal .......................................................................................................................................................... 43 STS overview .......................................................................................................................................................... 43 Statements ............................................................................................................................................................... 46 GENERAL PROTECTIONS/ADVERSE ACTION ................................................................................................... 56 1. ESTABLISHING THE CLAIM ...................................................................................................................... 57 Termination at Common Law ..................................................................................................................................... 69 Introduction – contract formation ........................................................................................................................... 69 Step 2: what are the terms of the contract? ............................................................................................................. 69 Step 3: Express Terms  Incorporation ................................................................................................................. 69 Step 4: Contractual Variation .................................................................................................................................. 73 Step 5: Implied terms .............................................................................................................................................. 74 2 Step 6: Restraint of Trade ....................................................................................................................................... 82 Step 7: Termination of 84 Protections under WHS ............................................................................................................................................... 87 Primary PCBU Duty ............................................................................................................................................... 87 Co-regulation .......................................................................................................................................................... 90 Duty to take care and right to cease work ............................................................................................................... 91 Other General Duties .............................................................................................................................................. 92 Remedies/Penalties under WHS Legislation .......................................................................................................... 94 Anti-discrimination ................................................................................................................................................. 95 Bullying ................................................................................................................................................................... 96 Sexual harassment ................................................................................................................................................... 98