Unpaid Wages

30 Aug 2021

Long Service Entitlements: When Service Isn’t Continuous

Ready and Willing or Sitting Ducks; the Developing Categorisation of ‘Gig Workers’

With the rising prevalence of technology driven ‘gig workers’, judicial, political and social conversation have begun to question the traditional definition of ‘employee’.

COURT FINDS THAT MULTIPLE JOBS DO NOT CUMULATIVELY GIVE RISE TO EMPLOYEE ENTITLEMENTS UNDER EBA

Yielding greater clarity surrounding workers’ entitlements when engaged in multi-hiring arrangements, the Federal Circuit Court of Australia (the Court) has declared that employees who hold several “separate and distinct” part-time positions cannot calculate overtime and additional entitlements on the grounds of combined hours.