More small businesses bound by unfair dismissal laws

A host of small businesses face the greater prospect of having unfair dismissal claims launched against them after changes to industrial relations law.

The meaning of what constitutes a small business has been altered from one that hires less than 15 full-time equivalent employees to one that hires less than 15 employees.

The change is now based on total headcount and includes casual and part-time workers rather than dividing the total number of hours worked by all employees by 38 (the full-time working week).

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