Queensland Workplace and Workplace Injury Law

11/11/2025

There wouldn't be food on tables and store shelves would be empty without Distribution, Transport & Warehousing workers.

17/07/2025

15/05/2024

Expressions of interests: Class Action - Quick Silver Connections Limited

We are seeking expressions of interest from current or ex-employees of Quicksilver Connections Limited who may have worked for Quicksilver Connections from or at any time since 1 December 2018.

We would be interested in hearing from any current or employee who was employed by Quick Silver Connections to work in the following businesses including:

Quicksilver Cruises
Great Adventures
Silver Series
Posiden Cruises
Quicksilver Dive Centre
Pro Dive Cairns
Wavedancer Low Isles
Ocean Spirit Cruises
Green Island Resort
Seawalker Green Island
Reef Biosearch
Ultimate Reef Pass
Island Photography Australia
Silver Sonic Dive & Snorkel
Silver Swift Dive and Snorkel
Closehaven Marina
Ocean Spirit Cruises
Green Island Treasures
Reef Memories
Great Adventures
Great Diving Adventures
Green Island Dive Centre

Call us on 1800 955 885 or email at [email protected]

06/04/2024

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15/02/2024

Pecuniary penalties of $137,435 were imposed against a former director and a general manager of a Melbourne-based group of companies and their former accounting firm, for deliberately breaching workplace laws. The penalties were imposed for failing to comply with the Fair Work Ombudsman Notice to Produce records.
Employers need to be aware that breaching record-keeping laws and failing to comply with lawful requests like Notices to Produce, which were found to be deliberate can result in the imposition of considerable pecuniary penalties.

15/02/2024

Compulsory training completed outside of work hours should be paid time – even if the training is online and you can do it from home. The only exception is for training which is to get or maintain a qualification or certification that's a requirement of the job. So if your award, enterprise agreement or employment contract says you must have a particular qualification as a requirement of employment, you likely won't be entitled to be paid for completing it outside work hours. Some awards and registered agreements do contain special provisions for required qualifications, like a first aid allowance that is payable in some circumstances. So it's a good idea to check your award or enterprise agreement to see what your entitlements are.

09/02/2024

As part of these changes, intentional underpayment of wages by employers will become a criminal offence.

Employers will commit an offence if:

they’re required to pay an amount to an employee (such as wages), or on behalf of or for the benefit of an employee (such as superannuation) under the Fair Work Act, or an industrial instrument
they intentionally engage in conduct that results in their failure to pay those amounts to or for the employee on or before the day they’re due to be paid.

There are stronger protections against discrimination for employees experiencing family and domestic violence.

This means that it’s unlawful for an employer to take adverse action (including dismissal) against an employee because the employee is (or has been) experiencing family and domestic violence.

20/09/2021

We are often asked whether communications such as personal emails or text messages that are sent from a work phone or work computer are treated the same way as our other private information such as our medical records. Thought should always be given to sending personal information from work or by way of a work device. It should always be contemplated that the owner of the device that stores the information or from which a communication is sent is able to access it. No person, including employers, has an entitlement to be able to look at personal communications that are stored on devices that are privately owned. The same does not apply to devices or accounts that are owned by employers. An employer that contemplates accessing or reading what are obviously an employees private communications ought only do so with the consent of the employee. It is, for this reason, care ought to be taken before storing or sending private information or messages on work devices.

18/08/2021

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