Drugs at Work – Part I
20/06/2018
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 an escalating issue. There is still a perception held by some people that the issues are limited to certain ‘sections’ of society, either geographically, culturally or […]
By Nardia Vescovi-Diss. 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 and invoice you for the work, and – bingo – you had an Independent Contractor. No need to worry about PAYG, […]
By David Brown 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 you may be “Sham Contracting”. You can now sit back and breathe a sigh of relief that they are responsible for all their benefits, right? Not […]
Where has all our productivity gone?
27/04/2018
By Natasha Hawker Why are Australian businesses not reaching their potential when it comes to productivity? Currently we are lagging behind other OECD countries and our position is not improving. We are behind US, UK, Brazil and France, to name just a few. “Productivity is the real value of output produced by a unit […]
Do you know your HR Basics? If not, Fair Work could be shining a spotlight on your business!
19/04/2018
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 have the basics right in their workplaces. Your business could be one of their targets. The Workplace Basics campaign will see Fair Work Inspectors assist businesses with […]
Natasha Hawker sat down with Simon Berglund from Sage Australia and talked about the ATO introduction of Single Touch Payroll, starting in July 2018. Here are some tips for getting your business ready for this major change.
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 the social media channels you’ll need to use for recruitment if you are trying to attract Gen Z. Here are the 8 most important things to consider […]
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 (TSS) visa from March 2018. Since the announcement there has been over 200 occupations removed from the occupation lists used for skilled migration visas, including the 457 and 407 (training) […]
You may have seen our Managing Director, Natasha Hawker was interviewed for an ABC Online article last week on the businesses who are hiring only non-smokers. As you may expect, the comments on this article picked up views from both ends of the spectrum and the article itself was picked up as a talking […]
By David Brown, Employee Expert As business owners, we’re always managing risk and one of the risks that we see coming for you is around the greatly increased awareness and acceptance when raising a sexual harassment complaint. The #MeToo movement started last year, following issues in the USA and has resulted in several high profile […]
