These blogs are designed to provide you insight and understanding across various areas of law with accessible information on a wide range of topics.
Whether you’re looking to understand the basics, review a case study or stay up to date with the latest news, you’ll find valuable insights here.
Hall Payne secures a great win for members of the Australian Maritime Officers’ Union and the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers in a recent appeal to a Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission related to rejection of the Enterprise Agreement.
A recent Fair Work Commission decision, in which Hall Payne Lawyers represented the successful employee, is an important reminder that employers cannot ignore broader workplace failures, focus on a single employee, and then rely on a flawed investigation to justify dismissal.
In June 2025, we assisted an electrician in NSW who had been denied a contractor’s licence. With our assistance, our client obtained a great outcome and was ultimately granted a licence with minimal conditions.
Learn what a class action is, how class actions in Australia work, when group legal action may suit your case, and how Hall Payne Lawyers can help.
Read a 2015 industrial relations review, revisited in 2026, of ongoing issues in workplace rights, Fair Work Act contraventions and union legal advice.
Read how AWU v Barminco involved an enterprise agreement dispute, employee voting rights and employer tactics during enterprise bargaining.
Hall Payne Lawyers has secured another High Court win for union clients, reinforcing our experience in union legal advice and appeal matters. Read on.
Hall Payne Lawyers has won a general protections matter in the Federal Court of Australia for United Voice. The proceeding concerned the termination by child care employer MDBR123 Pty Ltd…
A 2024 Queensland tribunal decision reinforces the strict professional boundaries required of health practitioners. In this case review, a chiropractor was found guilty of professional misconduct after engaging in a consensual sexual relationship with a long-term client.
If you are a worker, you may have questions about the nature and extent of your employer’s obligation to provide PPE, including who it applies to, how it might apply in different employment arrangements, and the consequences of non-compliance.
Whether you’re an employer looking to implement a policy or an employee wondering about your rights in relation to workplace drug and alcohol testing, here’s everything you need to know.
In this article, we consider a 2024 Magistrates Court (VIC) decision where it was found that an employee had worked unreasonable hours. The employer was liable for contravening the Fair Work Act and was ordered to pay the employee compensation as well as imposing penalty fines upon the employer.
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