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Workplace Relations Section - General Committee Update

Workplace Relations General Committee 06 Sep 2021

News, resources, cases and updates from the general committee...

September 2021

Workplace Workplace Relations

A time to reflect on inclusion in the workplace

Maddy Hearn 16 Aug 2021

Victorians have spent the majority of the past 16 months in some form of lockdown, isolation or government enforced restriction. Inclusion has faced a significant hurdle and, arguably, taken a back seat in the list of priorities in the legal industry.

Workplace Relations

LIV comments on Sex Discrimination & Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill

Sexual Harassment Working Goup 11 Aug 2021

The LIV has provided comments to the Law Council of Australia on the proposed Sex Discrimination & Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill...

Discrimination Women's Rights Workplace Relations

LIV seeks that Sex Discrimination Act Amendment Bill not proceed

LIV Diversity Committee 13 Apr 2021

The LIV has submitted a letter to MP Zali Steggall expressing concerns regarding her proposed Bill to amend the Sex Discrimination Act...

Diversity Human Rights Women's Rights Workplace Relations

LIV expresses concerns regarding JobSeeker 'Dob-in' Hotline

LIV Workplace Relations Committee 13 Apr 2021

The LIV has submitted a letter to the Attorney-General Michaelia Cash regarding the proposed JobSeeker reporting line, also known as the 'Dob-In' hotline...

Obligations Workplace Relations

Annualised salary changes under Legal Services Award due next week

LIV 25 Feb 2021

Law firms have until Monday March 1 to reconcile the annualised salaries of law clerks, law graduates and paralegals under Fair Work’s new underpayments legislation...

Workplace Relations Young Lawyers

LIV comments on the Fair Work Amendment Bill

LIV Workplace Relations Section 29 Jan 2021

The LIV Workplace Relations Section has written to the LCA to provide employee and employer perspectives to the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020....

Workplace Relations

Industrial Relations Update: What You Should Know

LIV Workplace Relations Section 11 Jan 2021

This article aims to explain some of the key aspects of the Fair Work Amendment Bill ...

Workplace Relations

Workplace Relations Annual Report

LIV Workplace Relations Section 26 Nov 2020

The 2020 Annual Report for the LIV Workplace Relations Section has been released....

Workplace Relations

Working holiday program needs better safeguards, LIV tells inquiry

Karin Derkley 06 Oct 2020

Measures to guard against exploitation of vulnerable workers on working holiday visas must be introduced along with any extension of the current program, the LIV told a parliamentary inquiry...

Migration Law Workplace Relations

Young Lawyers Matter

Karen Finch 07 Sep 2020

During the first lockdown in Melbourne, I attended a virtual event organised by the Young Lawyers Section at the Law Institute of Victoria. During that session, an incredibly accomplished, articulate, intelligent young lawyer made a comment that impacted me greatly – “My voice doesn’t matter.”

Workplace Relations Young Persons

Year of crises leans heavily on government lawyers

Karin Derkley 25 Jun 2020

Government lawyers have been kept busy throughout 2020 as first the bushfires and then the COVID-19 crisis piled demand on their advice services, the LIV's Government Lawyers Conference was told last week...

Finance Workplace Relations