All Articles From Ben Duggan
2025 Edition of Best Lawyers: Celebrating Our Leaders and a Rising Star
DW Fox Tucker Lawyers is delighted to announce that several of our firm’s leaders and a rising star have been recognised in the 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers in Australia awards across 15 categories.…
Do Not Disturb: What Employers Need to Know About the Fair Work ‘Right to Disconnect’
A deal to give employees the right to disconnect has been struck with the Greens to ensure the Federal Government has support for their second tranche of Closing Loopholes reforms. The Fair Work…
Introducing DW Fox Tucker Lawyers Newest Director
DW Fox Tucker Lawyers is thrilled to announce the promotion of Jonathan Ikonomopoulos to the position of Director. This promotion is a significant milestone for both our firm and Jonathan as he is…
Workplace Criminalisation: Labor Governments Criminalise Workplace Manslaughter and Wage Theft
In separate moves that further criminalise conduct in the workplace, the State Government has introduced industrial manslaughter as a criminal offence into South Australian safety law while the…
It’s Time to Fix Your Fixed-Term Contracts!
Late last year, the Federal Parliament passed the Secure Jobs, Better Pay reforms that amend the Fair Work laws. A target of the secure jobs component of the reforms is fixed-term contracts, which…
Taking Reasonable Care to Ensure Your Acts or Omissions Don’t Land You in Court
In a previous article, ‘Pivot in Enforcement Strategy to Create Safer Workplaces’[1], I suggested that regulators are increasingly looking to prosecute individuals for breaches of work health and…
Increase in Minimum Award Rates of Pay
Fair Work has significantly increased award rates of pay for the Health Professionals and Support Services Modern Award. Below is a copy of the Pay Guide with updated information about the updated…
Collaborating With Robots in the Workplace
Effectively managing the physical and psychological risk of persons working with autonomous collaborative robots and the legal considerations that arise out of these “blended” workplaces.
Landmark Decision: Fair Work Commission Implements Historic Minimum Wage Hike
Last Friday, 2 June, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) announced its minimum wage review decision for 2022-23.[1] A summary of the key wage increase that will apply from 1 July 2023 is as follows: The…
From Fixed Term to Permanent
The Full Bench of the South Australia Tribunal clarifies that the Tribunal has the power to make an order under section 18 that changes the legal nature of the employment relationship
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