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Why Do We Need Employment Contracts?
Employment contracts are the backbone of healthy employer/employee relationships. They spell out the conditions of the job in a mutually binding agreement between you and your employees. They allow everyone to be clear about the terms of a job, and the expectations of...
Why do we need Job Descriptions?
Have you ever tried making a complicated meal without a recipe? Sometimes you might get a winner, other times it might turn out a disaster! This can be how your employees feel in their roles when they don’t have a recipe for success. Here are three ways in which...
Why Do We Need Tailored Workplace Policies?
Like car insurance, a dedicated savings account, or decent wet-weather gear, workplace policies are the business essentials you don’t fully appreciate until you need them. Workplace policies, at their most basic, are written documents that spell out to workers...
Breaking – Another death-blow to casual employment
If you currently employ casual staff or are looking at doing so, this week’s landmark ruling from the Federal Court is big news you’ll need to know about. Australian Workforce Management company, Workpac, has been ordered to back-pay casual employee Robert Rossato...
Temporary Award changes
Recently Fair Work has made changes to the Clerks – Private Sector Modern Award. These changes are to assist businesses to face the issues raised through the COVID–19 pandemic. One of the main temporary amendments is around being able to expect your staff to do...
Breaking – Changes to 80 modern Awards are coming
The Fair Work Commission has released a statement proposing to vary 80 modern awards to Provide up to 2 weeks unpaid leave for an employee who is required to self isolate, because of measures taken by Government or medical authorities in response to COVID-19Allow an...
Fair Work Act Amendments & JobKeeper Subsidy
Things have changed—again—and if your business is accessing the Jobkeeper wage subsidy it’s important to keep on top of what these changes mean for you. This new Fair Work Act ONLY affects employers and employees claiming the JobKeeper payment, meaning that even if a...
Change in Annual Salary Agreements
Do you employ staff on annual salaries? If yes, important legislation is now in place that affects you. Make sure you’re covered. Read on to find out what you need to do. The Fair Work Commission handed down a decision last year to protect the rights of workers paid...
How the Coronavirus affects your workplace
The Coronavirus, or COVID-19, has dominated the media over the past couple of weeks, and it has far-reaching implications when it comes to WHS and workplace responsibilities. With the spread of the virus so hard to contain, it’s important that all business owners and...
Paid or unpaid leave
Since the outbreak of COVID–19 we have fielded a lot of calls regarding leave and if it has changed any leave entitlements. At the time of writing this blog, it hasn’t, nor is there any form of Pandemic Leave. With that in mind, we would like to address the...
Working From Home–Is There An Issue?
In this new season of pandemic, we have an unprecedented rise of people needing to or asking to work from home. What you may not realise though is that your responsibilities as an employer to make sure your people are safe in the workplace to continue, even when the...
Can I Stand Down My Employees?
One of the most common questions our team is being asked at the moment is “can I stand down employees?” If there’s no work for them to do, what are the rules? What are my responsibilities as an employer? Basically, the answer is a stand-down is appropriate when an...