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An employment agreement is an agreement between an employer and an employee that sets out the rights and obligations of each party. An employment agreement can be purely verbal, or it can be in writing (or a combination of both). ...read more

The Commission has this week handed down two separate decisions relating to the Annual Wage Review for all Awards, and the Penalty Rate Reductions for some Awards....read more

The Fair Work Commission yesterday handed down its 2013 Annual Wage Review Decision...read more

A probationary period is a period of time (i.e 3 months) when an employee is first employed, which allows either the employer or the employee to terminate the employment for any reason. ...read more

Generally speaking, a full-time employee is an employee who works at least thirty eight (38) hours per week, and if required, reasonable additional hours. ...read more

Generally speaking, a part-time employee is an employee who works less than thirty eight (38) hours per week, and has reasonably predictable hours of work. ...read more

Generally speaking,a casual employee is an employee that works varying hours each week on an irregular and non-systematic basis. ...read more

Ordinary hours of work are the hours that are regularly worked each week by full-time and part-time employees, and this excludes overtime. ...read more

Usually, a transfer of business takes place when a business is sold (or 'transferred') to another party. ...read more

A restraint of trade is a clause in an employment agreement that prevents a former employee from starting their own competing business or working for a competitor, for a defined period of time after the employee's employment has ended, and possibly within a defined area. ...read more

Employee confidentiality is a legal principle that prevents an employee from using or disclosing to a third party any confidential information that belongs to their employer during employment or after the employment has ended, other than in the course of the employee's employment. ...read more