Specialty Group: Employment and Labor Law

Contact: Matthew Payten, Special Counsel; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia)  Under s 351 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)(FW Act), an employer is prohibited from taking action adverse against an employ ...

Contact: Lara Radik, Senior Associate; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has recently upheld the termination of a Qantas employee who was found to have booked discount airfar ...

Contact: Marc R. Engel, Lerch, Early & Brewer (Maryland, USA) As Maryland employers have increasingly come to learn, employee claims of unpaid overtime are among the most challenging to resolve. This is true p ...

Contact: Matthew Payten, Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) The industrial laws dealing with the transmission of business can be both significant in their impact and confusing to businesses in their applica ...