Could You Be Guilty Of Wage Theft?
Businesses in Australia are becoming subject to an increasing focus on incidents of wage theft. The Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Act of 2017... Read more.
Reminder: Award Rate Increases from 1 July 2018
By Paul Ackerman The Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review decision came into effect from 1 July 2018. The decision delivered a 3.5% increase to both the national... Read more.
Are You Ready For A Fair Work Audit?
By Paul Ackerman In recent months the Fair Work Ombudsman has begun auditing one thousand businesses across Australia as part of a new campaign to ensure employers... Read more.
Succession Planning with Natasha Hawker and Geoff Green
In this video blog, Natasha Hawker discusses succession planning with Geoff Green of author of Smart Business Exit Need help with succession planning for your business?... Read more.
Drugs at Work – Part IV
By Nardia Vescovi-Diss Having gone through the suggestions in our previous blogs, having a clear policy, having those first difficult conversations, perhaps invoking... Read more.
Drugs at Work – Part III
By Nardia Vescovi-Diss Great work, you’ve got your policies and procedures in place regarding Drugs and Alcohol, you’re taking a preventative approach and building... Read more.
Drugs at Work – Part II
by Nardia Vescovi-Diss OK, so you’ve decided that it’s time to make sure that you’ve got your Work Health & Safety (WH&S) obligations covered, your... Read more.
Drugs at Work – Part I
by Nardia Vescovi-Diss Unless you’ve been somewhere with no access to the outside world over the past few years, you will be aware that drugs in our society are... Read more.
Private Practice with Cathy Love
Today on the podcast today we talk to Natasha Hawker, CEO of Employee Matters. Employee Matters provides employee support to small businesses to maximise profitability... Read more.
A Bulletproof Interview Process to Help You Achieve Recruitment Success
By Natasha Hawker – Published in FBAA Broker Magazine May 2018 Recently a client of ours, in his excitement and against our instructions, offered a job to... Read more.
Fair Work Commission hands down its Annual Wage Review decision
Does this Impact Your Business? The Fair Work Commission has handed down its annual wage review decision delivering a 3.5% increase to both the national minimum... Read more.
So you think contractors are the answer to your employee issues? – Think Again!
I bet you used to think that using Independent Contractors was easy. Essentially, they needed to be working for you for no more than 80% of the time, have an ABN... Read more.
Do you pay Super for your Contractors? – If not READ THIS
So you have have carefully studied the arrangements you have with your independent contractors and taken some good advice to protect yourself from the argument that... Read more.
7 reasons to bring back the art of the business lunch
What happens when you take a client out for a business lunch? You win more work, writes Natasha Hawker. My career started in Banking & Finance in the late 80’s,... Read more.
From Hire to Fire and Everything in Between: an Interview with Natasha Hawker and Jeremy Streton
Natasha and Jeremy of Business Legal Lifecycle chatted about all things HR and the genesis of Employee Matters, the business. Listen in and view Here ... Read more.
Where has all our productivity gone?
By Natasha Hawker Why are Australian businesses not reaching their potential when it comes to productivity? Currently we are lagging behind other OECD countries... Read more.
Do you know your HR Basics? If not, Fair Work could be shining a spotlight on your business!
By Kate Renton, Employee Expert The Fair Work Ombudsman has begun to audit 1000 businesses across Australia, as part of a new campaign to make sure employers... Read more.
Single Touch Payroll Reporting – a conversation with Simon Berglund, Vice President, Customers for Life – Sage
Welcome to our latest interview blog, where Natasha Hooker from Employee Matters sits down with Simon Berglund, VIP Customers for Life from Sage Australia, to demystify... Read more.
Looking to Recruit Gen Z? You have 8.25 seconds… Go!
By Kate Renton Facebook and LinkedIn are out – Snapchat and Instagram are in. And I’m not talking about where to post your latest selfies, I’m talking about... Read more.
No More 457 Visas from this month: How will this affect your Recruitment plans?
Back in April 2017, the Government announced that they would be replacing the Temporary Work (Skilled) 457 visa with the completely new Temporary Skill Shortage... Read more.