Recorded Webinar: Practical Aspects of Managing Employee Transfers and Entitlements in a Business Acquisition

There are a whole bunch of issues in the employment space when the ownership of a business changes. Things like entitlements, redundancy, different enterprise bargaining agreements, applicability of modern awards, not to mention the business transmission provisions of the Fair Work Act. This presentation will examine these issues in detail.

• Employee entitlements – what is the purchaser up for?
• Differences in treatment of entitlements depending on whether assets or shares were acquired
  • sick and carer’s leave
  • annual leave
  • long service leave
• An alternative – terminate the employees at changeover and pay out all entitlements, then reemploy
• Applicability of business transmission provisions in the FWA
• Making changes to existing employment arrangements
  • making existing employees redundant – redundancy
  • dealing with legacy EBAs
  • liability for underpayments before changeover