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Take steps now to comply with casual employment reforms: lawyer
The latest Closing Loopholes' legislation contains "significant changes around casual employees", an employment lawyer says in setting out how to comply.
The reforms include a new definition of casual employment, which reverses changes made since the High Court's Workpac v Rossato ruling in 2021, King & Wood Mallesons' senior consultant Brett Feltham tells a new HR Daily Premium webcast on this year's HR 'hot spots'.
Specifically, he explains, an employee will be a casual if: the employment relationship is characterised by an absence of a firm advance commitment to continuing and indefinite work; and the employee would be entitled to a casual loading, or a specific rate of pay for casual employees under the terms of a fair work instrument or employment contract...
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