Staying Informed - Law Institute of Victoria

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

Temporary Amendments to Fair Work regulations

Workplace Relations Section 29 Apr 2020

The LIV has prepared a brief summary of an important Fair Work amendment, in response to COVID-19…

COVID-19 Workplace Workplace Relations

JobKeeper Payment

Workplace Relations Section 16 Apr 2020

The LIV has prepared a brief summary of the JobKeeper Payment, and what this means for employees and employers….

COVID-19 Workplace Workplace Relations

Young Lawyers: A call to action

Rose Inglis 01 Apr 2020

Young lawyers are particularly vulnerable to workplace sexual harassment. There are steps you can take to change the status quo.

Workplace Workplace Relations

Annual Report released for Workplace Relations Section

Workplace Relations Section 02 Dec 2019

The Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) has released its annual report for the Workplace Relations section...

Workplace Relations

LIV Young Lawyers supports better workplace protections for early lawyers

LIV Young Lawyers 13 Sep 2019

LIV Young Lawyers has supported the proposal for the modern award to be expanded to include early lawyers in private practice, including the establishment of a minimum wage...

Workplace Relations Young Persons

LIV responds to discussion paper on sexual harassment in the legal profession

Workplace Relations Section 11 Sep 2019

In a reponse to the Law Council of Australia's discussion paper addressing sexual harassment in the legal profession, the LIV has advocated for greater oversight by regulatory bodies and targeted training surrounding sexual harassment...

Women's Rights Workplace Relations

Workplace Relations Section Case Law Update: June 2019

Workplace Relations Section 03 Jul 2019

The LIV's Workplace Relations Section monthly case law update provides members with a brief summary of relevant employment law and industrial relations decisions published in June 2019.

Workplace Workplace Relations