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What are the duties of an employee at work?
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Broadly the duties can be classified as follows:
- Duty to work in a skilful and competent manner
- Duty to obey an employer’s lawful commands
- Duty to provide faithful service
- Duty not to act in a manner hostile to employers interests
- Duty to observe confidentiality of information
- Duty to account for all money and properties received in the course of
employment
- Duty to make available to employer all inventions conceived in the course of
employment
- Duty to disclose information to employer
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Detailed explanations can be found labour law source materials such as in:
- the Australian Labour Law Reporter (CCH)
- The Law of Employment by Macken, McCarry and Sappideen (LBC)
- Australian Labour Law: an Introduction by Creighton and Stewart (Federation
Press)
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