New Case: Contractors found to be Employees

The full bench of the Federal Court recently delivered a judgement that two independent contractor truck drivers employed as such for 40 years were in fact employees. The decision, Jamsek v ZG Operations Australia Pty Ltd (2020) reinforced the view that a longstanding...

Statutory Duty of Care

The Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 introduces a range of statutory obligations on workers in the building industry. Notable is the new statutory duty of care toward property owners imposed upon anyone performing construction work. While property owners...