The retention trust scheme under the Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Act 2021 requires retention money withheld under eligible construction contracts to be held in a retention money trust account with a recognised financial institution. Timeline for the requirements: After...

Human factors are an integral component of safe and efficient operations within major hazard facility, petroleum and geothermal energy operations. These types of operations have major accident potential and many safety critical tasks to prevent and mitigate major accident events are human-dependent...

Under the WA Long Service Leave Act , an employer and employee are able to agree to cash out some or all of an employee's long service leave once the employee has fully accrued a long service leave entitlement. A long service leave entitlement cannot be cashed out in advance of the employee having...

Under the WA Long Service Leave Act , when an employee completes 10 years of continuous employment, they are entitled to take 8.667 weeks of paid long service leave. An employee is entitled to take another 4.333 weeks of paid long service leave for every further 5 years of continuous employment...

Under the WA Long Service Leave Act , it is compulsory for employers to keep employment records for all employees. All records relevant to the calculation of an employee’s long service leave must be kept for the employee’s entire period of employment and for seven years after the employee’s...

A health and safety representative (HSR) is elected by their work group under the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (WHS Act) to represent workers in work health and safety (WHS) matters. A person in a management role can be a HSR if they are a member of the work group and have been elected. However...