The Lawcast

🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📧Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430 Video: https://youtu.be/i55zSb7kRIU This week join Melanie and Chris is discussing this crazy sexual harassment case: an employee has targeted his colleague, making suggestive comments, requesting for sex, slapping her bum and shoving his face between her chest. The Employer denied that he was vicariou...

🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📧Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430 This week in Chris's Commissions Crazies, an employee was terminated for staring at another staff member's chest. #TheLawcast

This week, starting with a new segment: Chris' Commissions Crazies (CCC) speaks about absolutely unusual court cases. Chris speaks about how an employee gets punched for resigning and imprisoned until the cops come. This resulted in an out of time application (which is rarely approved) for an unfair dismissal case. There was an incredible case where someone made an out of time application because...

In the new age of technology, many employers and employees alike are navigating ways to appropriately use social media. What happens when a click of a button may ruin a company's reputation? Is this fair on the employers? Otherwise, if we restrict employee's social media use, would that be fair? This week's podcasts also talks about a case where a woman does her side hustle job while at work, subs...

Starting with an interesting case where an employee accidentally rolls over the employer's pet Galah, resulting in his dismissal. Find out what happens next with Melanie and Chris. We also speak about the reason why a company may prefer hiring a contractor over an employee, whether or not the law is too harsh on employers for mistakes, and the duty of a lawyer to keep privileged information confid...

Starting with an interesting case where an employee accidentally rolls over the employer's pet Galah, resulting in his dismissal. Find out what happens next with Melanie and Chris. We also speak about the reason why a company may prefer hiring a contractor over an employee, whether or not the law is too harsh on employers for mistakes, and the duty of a lawyer to keep privileged information confid...

We are back, the first #Lawcast of 2022! This week, employment lawyers, Melanie and Chris separate common assumptions from fact. Besides that, they will also be speaking about what you can do when employees sick with COVID or in isolation. This will also be the first time Seymour is on camera. Video: https://youtu.be/x8n8t-DE3uk Part 1: 2:58 Employment law myths 3:42 “you can’t terminate on sick l...

We are back, the first #Lawcast of 2022! This week, employment lawyers, Melanie and Chris separate common assumptions from fact. Besides that, they will also be speaking about what you can do when employees sick with COVID or in isolation. This will also be the first time Seymour is on camera. Video: https://youtu.be/x8n8t-DE3uk Part 1: 2:58 Employment law myths 3:42 “you can’t terminate on sick l...

Contact us should you have a General protections issue: 🌐Web: https://mjtlaw.com.au/free-consultation/ 📧Email: admin@mjtlaw.com.au 📞Tel: 07 3040 3430 Full video version : https://youtu.be/zz3_3o7dAdM What is General Protections? Melanie and Chris does an in-depth review of this case and all its enquiries and complaints one-by-one.

Watch our video version: https://youtu.be/5eHZYEfH8CE Social media is #powerful, #accessible, and #omnipresent. And, it's just getting more popular. Protect your business by learning about #socialmedia and its associated legal risks, create a policy, disciplinary actions, and more.

Watch our video version: https://youtu.be/5eHZYEfH8CE Social media is #powerful, #accessible, and #omnipresent. And, it's just getting more popular. Protect your business by learning about #socialmedia and its associated legal risks, create a policy, disciplinary actions, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLid5sdP16f8B_SFWEc_q_XjyrHM10C27m Join Melanie and Chris in a heated discussion on outlier legal cases on mandating vaccines in Queensland workplaces, and how it compares to other states. 🔺Brasell-Dellow & Ors v State of Queensland, (Queensland Police Service) & Ors [2021] QIRC 356 🔺Kimber v Sapphire Coast Community Aged Care Ltd [2021] FWCFB 6015...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLid5sdP16f8B_SFWEc_q_XjyrHM10C27m This week, Melanie and Chris speak on two cases: one, on a Professor making a comment on climate change affecting the great barrier reef, leading to an unfair dismissal; two, an employee given a heavily redacted show cause that he wasn't able to respond to it. Watch how it unfolds....

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLid5sdP16f8B_SFWEc_q_XjyrHM10C27m Over the past few weeks, the vaccine rollout has been taking speed. Especially with more and more major corporations and government agencies mandating vaccines. Many employees may be facing termination should they not get their vaccines. Melanie and Chris discuss these new workplace policies and why some employees may be relu...

This week the lawyers speak on drugs and alcohol policy case involving a sales person. This person was required to provide a urine sample, however, she refused on multiple occasions and did not comply with the alternative solutions by the employer. She was then terminated. Melanie also weighs in on Australian work culture, and managers being overly friendly with their subordinates; and the implica...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLid5sdP16f8B_SFWEc_q_XjyrHM10C27m Our most LAWYER-Y Lawcast ever! Melanie and Chris speak about the recent case decision made on an application for unfair dismissal and application for costs. According to the decision, the applicant had not been working for 15 months prior to his dismissal dues to sickness. The applicant was dismissed because he was not able...

This week, we talk about how Menulog is advocating for an Award to be applied to their delivery workers. This would mean a more structured system for both employers and employees, and other business implications it may have. Another topic is on the possibility of whether parents can still take unpaid parental leave despite having stillbirths.

Is Google truly flexible in their work arrangements? Melanie and Chris speak about how Google is formalizing work-from-home arrangements for their employees. Employees who live in rural areas will receive a pay cut due to lower expenses. Is a pay cut in exchange for not traveling to work just a balance of supply and demand of human resources? Will other companies follow suit?

Side Hustles and the Gig economy is not getting any less popular anytime soon. Its tempting appeal, where the hours are flexible and, better, you may work for more than one company at a time. This week, our hosts discuss the case, where the Fair Work was criticised by lawyers of the Deliveroo on their statement that employees should be paid a minimum wage. By having to pay a minimum wage, delivery...

Episode 15 criticizes how the restrictions affect the rich and famous differently from the average (and the fact that the government is not transparent with this). Melanie and Chris also discuss the definition of "continuous employment"; based on the recent case that an employee's continuous service is not broken by resignation and subsequent re-employment as a casual worker. By that logic, she is...

This week, Melanie speaks about her experience with her dog trainer recently. The dog trainer validates her credibility by mentioning the length of her service. Which begs the question, how do you tell if someone is qualified for a job in an unregulated industry?

NEWS 1: The Fair Work Commission has published that there will be a 2.5% increase for minimum wages. NEWS 2: The Superannuation Guarantee rate is currently legislated to increase super by 0.5%, making it to 10% from 1 July 2021. This will significantly affect payroll and would spark the way SME's consider reward and loyalty in a post-pandemic business world.

This week's adventure: Melanie and Chris are in the Gold Coast! Attending the Queensland Law Society Annual Conference, they are joined by Benjamin Deverson (Lawganised). They talk about the fluctuating trust levels from clients in their lawyers before and after "the global event". What people expect and want from their lawyers behaviour may not necessarily lead to the desired outcome. We also tal...

This week on the Lawcast: interesting yet hilarious Australian statistics - like how 73% of all Australians change their sheets several times a month? (Though, we are skeptical... The source for these statistics is from Australia Talks.) In the second part, they also speak about the craziest laws around the world. Did you know Singapore does not allow chewing gum? 🤯

Melanie and Chris speaks about boundaries with alcohol in a social work environment. Should employers be more stringent in their policies, and does this affect trust and tip the balance in the relationship between employee and employer. In the second part, Melanie and Chris discuss how traditional gender roles could affect a female employee's choices in her career when starting a family.