Employment & Workplace Relations in Australia 2014

The Herbert Smith Freehills Employment team is pleased to again publish their annual guide to Australia’s employment laws. 

The Guide to Employment & Workplace Relations in Australia 2014 is intended to provide general counsel, senior managers, line managers and human resources professionals with a comprehensive, straightforward and up-to-date overview of all areas of employment law, both federal and state, in simple and accessible language, presented in a practical and easy to read format.

This year’s guide focuses on key aspects of the Fair Work Act, including the National Employment Standards and the complex array of laws regulating enterprise bargaining and industrial disputes. The Guide covers individual grievances against employers under the general protections provisions of the Fair Work Act, and deals extensively with termination of employment, discrimination and diversity. There is also guidance on navigating areas such as employee privacy, superannuation, taxation and work health & safety. 

This year’s Guide includes a new chapter on workplace bullying following the new anti-bullying provisions which commenced on 1 January 2014.  

Our companion guide to employment laws across 21 jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region, the Herbert Smith Freehills Asia-Pacific Employment Law Guide will be published in May 2014.

To access an extract of the Employment & Workplace Relations in Australia 2014 click here.

Obtaining a copy

If clients would like to obtain a copy of either the Australian or Asian employment law guides, they are available for purchase by contacting Kate Maher – email kate.maher@hsf.com.

For information regarding the legal content of the Guide, contact a member of the Employment, Pensions and Incentives team or Tony Wood on anthony.wood@hsf.com.