When it comes to employing casuals it is up to you as, an employer, to understand your rights and obligations.

In this guide we explain:

• What casual employment is
• When an employee is a casual employee
• Features of a casual employee for NES purposes
• How modern awards regulate casual employment
• Casual employee entitlements
• Regular and systematic employment
• Long service leave for casuals
• Right of award-based casuals to convert to permanent employment
• When you can you refuse an award-based casual employee’s request to convert to permanent employment
• What to do when an award-based casual requests to convert to permanent employment
• Protections for casual employees

This eBook also includes a Casual Employment Contract template.