Unfair dismissal can be an emotional and stressful topic which can leave your business legally vulnerable. Understanding your rights as well as your employees’ rights is key to minimising risk and ensuring the emotional wellbeing of your staff. What is Unfair Dismissal? Unfair dismissal is when an employee is dismissed from their job in an...
As most residential developers will be aware, new measures have been introduced affecting both vendors and purchasers of residential property. It is particularly relevant to the sale and purchase of off the plan units and house and land packages, but you could be a residential developer without actually considering yourself as such – the measures...
The Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (the Act) has been updated, with some of the biggest changes to occur since the legislation’s inception almost 40 years ago. Most of the changes commenced on 1 March 2018. However some changes, in particular those changes dealing with building and subdivision certification, have been postponed and won’t...
In 2017 the Retirement Village industry was rocked by adverse publicity directly resulting from a Four Corners Report. The NSW Government reacted by requesting Kathryn Greiner conduct a review and recommend changes to the industry and to the Retirement Villages Act 1999. The resulting report explained how the operation of the Retirement Village industry could...
When you’re looking for a lawyer, I think one of the key things to be thinking about is value for what you’re paying for. Some people when they’re in our firm, they want to know what our hourly rates are, and look, that’s a really important question to ask, but remember that it’s not...
When you’re effectively interviewing for a lawyer and perhaps you’re visiting different websites and talking to different lawyers, the key thing is to have a sense that they understand that area of the law, ask them questions about other cases perhaps, that they’ve had recently. Some of the stories that they can share with you....
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