It’s Friday afternoon and Christine, who has a series of documented performance failures, is about to be dismissed by you. You are by no means looking forward to this awkward conversation, but can be comforted by the knowledge that you have complied with your obligations thus far — and that Christine has decided to accept […]
By Paul Ackerman Following a recent decision by the Fair Work Commission, Modern Awards have been amended effective August 2018 to give employees access to five days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave each year. This followed a campaign run by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and supported by the 2015 Australian of […]
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 minimum wage and the minimum wage for all modern awards. The new national minimum wage will move to $719.20 per week or $18.93 per hour. This represents […]
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 […]
It’s Friday afternoon and Christine, who has a series of documented performance failures, is about to be dismissed by you. You are by no means looking forward to this awkward conversation, but can be comforted by the knowledge that you have complied with your obligations thus far — and that Christine has decided to accept […]
Most modern awards have been varied to incorporate changes to the way annual leave can be managed in the workplace. There are changes to rules for: cashing out annual leave taking annual leave in advance managing excessive annual leave balances payment of annual leave. Click Here for FWA August 2016 update
The other day my burgeoning grey hairs sent me on a much overdue trip to the hairdresser for some TLC. As usual, I engaged in a bit of chit chat with my hairdresser, a lady in her mid-twenties. We were chatting about part-time work for teenagers as my very motivated 13 year old is already […]
Let’s face it, no one wants to end up in front of the Fair Work Commissioner facing lengthy and expensive legal wrangles so I wanted to put this into perspective for you by getting you to answer some questions……. For full article click Here
