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An end-of-year party is the perfect way to celebrate success and reward your staff. Natasha Hawker, managing director of HR consultancy Employee Matters, points out it may also be a rare opportunity for your team to interact in person. “Work these days is more flexible and remote and there can be long periods of time […]

With more than half the country in one form of lockdown or another and with Sydney, in particular, looking like the lockdown will be in place for some weeks to come, organisations are once again having to think about how to manage through this situation. For many businesses this has meant fundamentally looking at how […]

As usual at this time of year, the Fair Work Commission has made its ruling on increases to the minimum wage and all other Award pay rates. The increase applies to anyone who is paid minimum award wages or the national minimum wage. So what is the decision? A 2.5% increase to Award pay rates […]

What’s happening? From 1 July this year the mandatory superannuation guarantee will increase by 0.5%. Currently, employers are obligated to contribute 9.5% of an employee’s base salary to their nominated superannuation fund. From 1 July this will increase to 10% and will continue to increase by 0.5% each year until it reaches 12% in 2025. […]

  New rules relating to paying casual employees overtime have come into effect from 20 November 2020.  If you have a casual employee covered by a Modern Award, please read on. Free download pdf user manual for stamina aeropilates xp615 home gym winstrol oral stanozolol 50 50mg 100 pills mister olympia 2016 results complete musculation […]

First of all the good news – As we know now, the government has extended the JobKeeper scheme through to March 2021, albeit on reduced rates and tiered payments. Unfortunately, the amendments to the scheme which covers the extension to the payments scheme and the temporary amendments to the Fair Work Act is complex to […]

Having already supported 960,000 businesses and 3.5 million workers, the Australian Federal Government has announced a further six month extension of the Job Keeper program. As many expected, the extension came with significant changes, including reduced and tiered payments and a requirement to reassess business eligibility. A high level overview of these changes is outlined […]

As we contemplate the employment landscape and the seismic shifts that have occurred over the past months, it is somewhat sobering to review the headlines and consider what this means beyond the labour market turbulence of the past weeks, as the dust begins to settle. With news of massive job losses, widespread stand downs and […]

As many of us find ourselves in this most unusual situation of homeschooling our children while also trying to work from home, it looks to be more of a long-term, rather than short-term, arrangement… So how exactly are we going to make this work? Our Employee Matters Team has worked remotely since its inception more […]

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Fair Work Commission has made a determination to make temporary variations to 99 Awards. The changes come in response to the Fair Work Commission identifying a regulatory gap between COVID-19 public health and government directives and the protections an employee has under the Fair Work Act. The variations […]