The Federal Court of Australia has affirmed that employers can be liable for misleading or deceptive representations made to prospective employees during negotiations over their terms and conditions of employment. Allens’ Tristan Garcia and Rebecca Kok report.
“You need to ensure you have the right to put an employee on gardening leave,” writes Charles Power of Holding Redlich. “If you don’t have that right and act as if you do, the employee could treat him or herself as being constructively dismissed.” Learn more about this issue here.