eSignature Lawfulness for Contract for Work in Australia

How to eSign a document: e-signature lawfulness for Contract for work in Australia

at the moment we're seeing a lot of people's contracts being varied and we've seen it in all sorts of different ways whether that's working time location hours pay now employers can vary your contract but it does depend on how they go about it and what they're varying so the key thing to consider is within the contract of employment is there a variation clause if so what does it say how much notice do they have to give what what are the requirements around any variation if it's a fundamental variation so to say they're asking you to move from london to leeds or they're asking you to work 50 hours instead of 20 those are examples of a fundamental variation of terms and what that means is that you have to essentially agree that with your employer if it can't be agreed it can cause problems because essentially as an individual you could say that that is breach in your existing terms of your contract with your employer what employers are doing at the moment is rather than simply just enforcing changes they're going through a period of consultation and that's really how these types of changes should come into play so you've got the contractual term where you'll look at the the notice period that they're supposed to give you and then you've got the way in which they go about it so how much information they're giving you when it's going to come into play how it'll impact on you and giving you an option whether or not you want to accept it you