{"id":8975,"date":"2025-07-04T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/?p=8975"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:20:04","slug":"podcast-legislation-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/?p=8975","title":{"rendered":"Podcast | Probationary Periods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Published 4 July 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team this week work through some &#8216;frequently asked questions&#8217; that clients have about probationary periods in employment contracts: what they are, why have them, and how they relate to the various statutory protections around dismissal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, they examine recent decisions of the Fair Work Commission relevant to employment law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can listen to the podcast below, or by clicking the links to subscribe on your preferred streaming service:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Probationary Periods\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/7KlGavR8GSb1uFjJvuLn2E?si=yOaByrS-QLyqKmdfwcKRFA&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3dMYYlPNAXdJMw9xnjE2TC\">Spotify<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/working-knowledge-the-employment-law-podcast\/id1473079389\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pocketcasts.com\/podcasts\/df2e4f30-899f-0137-f541-17da1cd0d495\">Pocket Casts<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podchaser.com\/podcasts\/working-knowledge-the-employme-897693?\">Podchaser<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The content of this podcast is general in nature and provides a summary of the issues covered. It is not intended to be, nor should it be relied upon, as legal or professional advice for specific employment situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working Knowledge recommends that specialist legal advice should be sought about specific legal issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published 4 July 2024 The team this week work through some &#8216;frequently asked questions&#8217; that clients have about probationary periods in employment contracts: what they are, why have them, and how they relate to the various statutory protections around dismissal. In the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, they examine recent decisions of the Fair Work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8987,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975\/revisions\/8987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}