Resolution123 Founder Carly Stebbing has discussed with Sky News a variety of legal contentions which may emerge in the workplace as Australia moves towards a COVIDSafe future and prepares to distribute a coronavirus vaccine.
Some business leaders want National Cabinet to issue urgent guidelines on whether employers can direct staff to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and have expressed concerns over unfair dismissal claims if workers are sacked for refusing the jab.
Ms Stebbing said the context of the workplace would be important when deciding whether a directive to receive a coronavirus vaccination is reasonable or not.
“There isn’t an express law that permits it, but employers have always been able to rely on work health and safety legislation and issue and lawful and reasonable directions to employees to ensure the health and safety of the workplace”.
“If the employee doesn’t comply with the direction then that’s when … it would become an issue of a question before the
Top 20 podcast episodes in 2020
By Jerome Doraisamy|20 December 2020
2020 saw extraordinary growth on The Lawyers Weekly Show. Here’s what you listened to this year on our primary podcast stream.
This past year has seen The Lawyers Weekly Show hit new heights, with monthly downloads now regularly topping 20,000 per month. It has been a year like no other, and our audio content has subsequently been rich, diverse and illuminating in conjunction with such times.
Here, we count down the top 20 episodes for 2020, as per the rate of downloads by you, our dedicated audience!
Force majeure clauses to cover a global pandemic in commercial lease contracts were not widely considered until very recently, leaving many legal practices with large, empty offices and continuing rental obligations. Kai Schindlmayr and Holly Bailey from Kernel Property discuss which types of firms are suffering the most in this time, the strategies that law firms could implement to leverage available opportuni
Top 10 stories for boutiques in 2020
By Jerome Doraisamy|17 December 2020
This year, the most-read stories for boutiques demonstrated that sole practitioners and SME firm leaders were focused not simply on survival but on putting the best foot forward for a post-pandemic world.
Melbourne’s extended lockdown was deleterious to the health and wellbeing of many lawyers. Not Katerina Peiros. In this interview, she details how she doesn’t really have a separation between her work life and other facets of her existence, in ways that other practitioners might – as someone who loves working from home, and whose hobbies have largely been compatible with lockdown, Ms Peiros has found that she has thrived during the age of coronavirus.