Redundancy is one of the highest-risk termination scenarios for employers. Get the process right and you have a complete defence to an unfair dismissal claim under the "genuine redundancy" provisions. Get it wrong - miss a consultation step, fail to consider redeployment, or apply flawed selection criteria - and you may face a successful unfair dismissal or general protections claim. This guide covers the full redundancy process from an employer's perspective: what makes a redundancy genuine,...

An unfair dismissal claim can land in your inbox within days of terminating an employee. The Fair Work Commission receives thousands of these applications every year, and the process moves fast - you'll typically have just seven days to respond after being notified of a claim. This guide walks you through what unfair dismissal actually means for employers, who is eligible to bring a claim, what the Fair Work Commission looks for when deciding a case, and how to build a process that holds up...

General protections claims are, in many respects, the more serious legal risk for employers compared to unfair dismissal - yet most employers know far less about them. The compensation is uncapped. There is no minimum employment period. And under section 361 of the Fair Work Act, the burden of proof is reversed: once the employee establishes that they hold a protected attribute or exercised a workplace right, the employer must prove that attribute or right was not a substantial reason for the...