Employment Entitlements Contract Review

Employment Contract Review

Before you sign, we can review your employment contract so you know exactly what you are agreeing to: pay and award coverage, hours, probation, notice, bonuses, confidentiality, intellectual property and restraints, and any term the law no longer allows.

Executive & Managers Contract Review

If you are an executive or a senior manager, we can review and negotiate your employment contract: restraints that could keep you out of your industry, bonus and incentive terms, notice and termination benefits (including the Corporations Act limits in Part 2D.2), confidentiality, and whether you will still have unfair dismissal rights.

I've Been Underpaid

If you have been underpaid, you can usually recover up to six years of unpaid wages and entitlements. We explain how underpayments are worked out, where to claim, and what employers and the people behind them risk if they do not pay.

Employment Restraints

Restraint of trade clauses try to stop you working for a competitor, starting your own business, dealing with clients or hiring former colleagues after you leave. In Western Australia they are void unless they are reasonable. We can tell you whether yours is likely to be enforced and what the risks are.

Redundancy Pay

If your job is made redundant, you may be entitled to redundancy pay of 4 to 16 weeks' pay, depending on how long you have worked for your employer, on top of notice. We explain who gets it, how it is calculated and when it does not apply.

Bonuses

Bonuses and commissions can be contractual entitlements or discretionary. Even a discretionary bonus cannot always be withheld at will. We can tell you whether you are entitled to a payment and how to recover it.

Flexibility At Work

If you have worked for your employer for at least 12 months, you can ask for flexible working arrangements, such as changed hours, a different pattern of work or working from home, if you are pregnant, a parent or carer, have a disability, are 55 or older, or are affected by family and domestic violence. Your employer can only refuse on reasonable business grounds, and the Fair Work Commission can now settle disputes.

Types Of Leave

Your minimum leave entitlements: annual leave, personal and carer's leave, compassionate leave, paid family and domestic violence leave, community service leave, parental leave, public holidays and long service leave, and how they differ in the WA state system.

Sickness

Personal (sick and carer's) leave lets you take paid time off when you are sick or injured, or to care for a member of your immediate family or household who is sick, injured or affected by an emergency. We explain how much you get, what evidence your employer can ask for, and your protection from dismissal.

Work Hours & Breaks

Your maximum weekly hours, when you can refuse extra hours, when overtime and penalty rates are payable, your breaks, and your right to disconnect outside working hours. We see many businesses get award overtime and break entitlements wrong.

Awards & Enterprise Bargaining Agreements

Modern awards set minimum pay and conditions for most jobs. An enterprise agreement replaces the award for the employees it covers, but must leave them better off overall. We explain how to find your award, how agreements are approved, and what to do if your employer is not following either.

How To Calculate An Underpayment

A step-by-step guide to working out whether you have been underpaid and by how much: finding your award and classification, rebuilding your hours, applying the right rates for each period, and totalling the shortfall.

The National Employment Standards

The 12 minimum entitlements every employee in the national system is guaranteed, whatever their award, agreement or contract says: hours, flexible work, casual conversion, leave, public holidays, super, notice and redundancy pay.

Casual Employees

Who is really a casual since the definition changed on 26 August 2024, what casuals are entitled to, and how to use the employee choice pathway to become permanent. Includes the rules for casuals in the WA state system.

The Right To Disconnect

Since 26 August 2024 (26 August 2025 for small businesses), employees can refuse to monitor, read or respond to work contact outside their working hours unless the refusal is unreasonable. What that means, when a refusal is unreasonable, and how disputes are resolved.

Fixed-Term Contracts

Since 6 December 2023, the Fair Work Act limits fixed-term contracts: generally no more than 2 years in total and no more than one renewal, with some exceptions. What the limits are, what happens if your contract breaks them, and your rights when a fixed term ends.