Dear Reader,

If you think there is even the slightest chance you will ever have to make someone redundant, you MUST read this.

The introduction of the Fair Work Act has significantly affected your ability to make redundancies – and January 1 2010 saw even more changes made to redundancy legislation.

So I thought today’s Bulletin would be a good time to recap how the Fair Work Act has changed redundancy laws – and what that means for you!

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When you decide to make an enterprise agreement under the Fair Work Act, you must take all reasonable steps to give each employee who will be covered by the agreement a notice of their right to be represented by a bargaining representative.

Employees joining your organisation after this notice is issued cannot claim that they should have received the notice. However, all employees who will be covered by the agreement, regardless of when they became employees, can appoint a bargaining representative at any time up until the vote on the agreement.

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Dear Reader,

Recently, a lot of the feedback I’ve been receiving about the Workplace Bulletin has been saying the same thing – you want to see more solutions to common workplace problems!

So I thought today’s Bulletin would be a good chance for me to share the answers to some labour queries our subscribers have sent in.

I’ve tried to pick questions that tend to get asked often, so you may have even had the same problems yourself – but not known how to deal with them.

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