SAET news
Online Forms Planned Outage Thursday 30 March 2023
21 March 2023
Online forms will be unavailable on Thursday 30 March 2023 between 5:00AM and 8:00AM due to a planned outage. The following forms will be affected by the outage: • A02 – Application for Review (Return to Work) • A03 – Application for Expedited Decision (Return to Work) •…
Practice Directions 2023
01 March 2023
Efficient and cost effective Today, the President of the South Australian Employment Tribunal, the Honourable Justice Steven Dolphin, has introduced new Practice Directions designed to improve the efficiency of proceedings and to ensure cost effectiveness. Justice Dolphin said: I have introduced a Practice Direction which will ensure that cases…
Website Outage Thursday 9 February
06 February 2023
Please note that the SAET website will be unavailable for short period of time during the morning on Thursday 9 February 2023. Please contact the Registry for anything urgent by email at saet@sa.gov.au or phone (08) 8207 0999.
Festive Period Opening Times
14 December 2022
SAET registry will continue to be open from 9:00am to 5:00pm all business days over the festive period. Friday, 23 December 2022 – OpenMonday, 26 December 2022 – ClosedTuesday, 27 December 2022 – ClosedWednesday, 28 December 2022 – OpenThursday, 29 December 2022 – OpenFriday, 30 December 2022 – OpenMonday, 2…
SAET Glossary of Terms
30 November 2022
SAET has created a Glossary of Terms to address the needs of Tribunal users, litigants, witnesses, interpreters etc who are not legally trained. It is intended to be a useful resource to explain words and phrases commonly used in Tribunal proceedings. This glossary is purposely written in plain English…
SAET Members Appropriate Workplace Conduct Policy
03 November 2022
On 19 August 2022, the Heads of Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, District Court, Magistrates Court, Coroners Court and Youth Court published the Appropriate Workplace Conduct Policy. After a period of consultation, as the President of the South Australian Employment Tribunal (SAET) I have decided to adopt and mirror that…
Microsoft Teams Pilot Project 2022
28 October 2022
Review of the Proposed Approach In the 10 December 2021 communique entitled ‘Review of the Proposed approach to managing Return to Work Act 2014 cases at hearing and determination’, it was advised that SAET would be conducting the MS Teams Conciliation Pilot Project in 2022. It was also advised…
Lodge your documents online
03 June 2022
You can now lodge documents to an existing SAET case online from the Forms – Existing Case page on the SAET website.Apart from established online forms, most lodgements with SAET are by email. While email has benefits…
Attendances at SAET – Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic responses
05 May 2022
As a result of recent changes to the South Australian Government’s COVID-19 restrictions, the directions in my previous communication ‘Attendances at SAET – COVID-19 (12 January 2022)’ have now ceased. All people attending SAET should do so in accordance with the directions and guidance set out on the SAET…
New South Australian Employment Tribunal Rules 2022
03 February 2022
On 3 February 2022, the South Australian Employment Tribunal Rules 2022 were gazetted and as such commenced immediately. The 2017 Rules and the Fast Track Stream Rules 2020 are revoked by the 2022 Rules. Following a comprehensive review, including wide-ranging stakeholder consultation, the Rules about costs, litigation guardians,…