I have just been presented with a deed of release which I have been asked to sign. My former employer is holding unpaid salary, leave and superannuation until I sign the deed.
In addition, my former employer is offering to pay out the outstanding wages in a series of instalments and I am concerned that this represents a great risk that I might never get paid out at all in full.
I was under the assumption that an employer cannot contract out of these kind of legislative entitlements and that these must be provided on termination of employment.
The deed surely cannot deny my statutory entitlement or attempt to circumvent them in anyway?
Is this best presented to Fair Work Australia?
In addition, my former employer is offering to pay out the outstanding wages in a series of instalments and I am concerned that this represents a great risk that I might never get paid out at all in full.
I was under the assumption that an employer cannot contract out of these kind of legislative entitlements and that these must be provided on termination of employment.
The deed surely cannot deny my statutory entitlement or attempt to circumvent them in anyway?
Is this best presented to Fair Work Australia?