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HR & Payroll Christmas Checklist
A comprehensive checklist covering all aspects of HR, to ensure you are taking proactive measures to set your team and business up for success.
Employer Quick Guide to Working from Home
Quick Guide to WFH – Is working from home an entitlement? How do we make this work for our team? All your questions and more are answered!
Quick Guide to Onboarding & Inductions
Want your new team members to hit the ground running and be productive from their very first week? Then you need to get your onboarding and induction process right for every new employee.
Flat Rate and Salary Risks in Heavy Industries
From truck drivers to site supervisors, more employers are unintentionally underpaying staff. Learn how to protect your business and ensure compliance.
Quick Guide to Company Policies
Effective company policies are the foundation of a successful business. Learn why they matter, how to craft them, and how to ensure they protect both your employees and your organisation from risk.
New Penalty and Overtime Rates Bill
The Labor Government has introduced the Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025, reinforcing its commitment to protect penalty and overtime pay for millions of workers.
Helensburgh Coal Breaches Fair Work Act – Redundancy Gone Wrong
Redundancy must be genuine. The Helensburgh Coal case shows the risks of ignoring redeployment and labour hire obligations.
Review of part-time employment in 11 modern awards underway
Fair Work Commission to review how part-time employment is defined, managed, and paid. This review could bring important changes to contracts, rostering, and pay for part-time staff across key industries.
FWO sues company for failure to pay unfair dismissal compensation to pregnant worker
A NSW business is in hot water after allegedly ignoring a Fair Work Commission order to pay compensation to a pregnant worker who was unfairly dismissed.
Driver Sacked for objecting to an Acknowledgement of Country
Questioning an Acknowledgement of Country during a toolbox meeting was one of the factors in an employee’s dismissal. The Fair Work Commission found the termination to be ….
Quick Guide: The New Right to Disconnect
The Closing Loopholes Act No. 2, which introduces a “right to disconnect” for employees, has passed parliament and comes in to effect on 26th August 2024. This means employees will soon have the right to disconnect from attempted contact by employers after working hours.
Quick Guide to Understanding Wage Theft and Underpayments
CBA have been fined over $10 million for underpaying employees and wage theft will soon become a criminal offence. Employers cannot be blasé about their payroll practices anymore, and our latest Quick Guide to understanding Wage Theft and Underpayments will help get you on track.
More Changes for Employers: Closing Loopholes Act Commenced in December 2023
More major IR reforms passed in December 2023 including criminalising intentional wage theft and non-payment of superannuation, equal pay for labour hire workers, discrimination protections for family and domestic violence, small business redundancy rules, delegate rights, and right of entry.
Superannuation to be Added to National Employment Standards
Changes to Superannuation
Under the new Protecting Worker Entitlement laws, we will see the right to superannuation added into the National Employment Standards (NES) from 1 January 2024.
Quick Guide: Xmas Parties and Functions (Best Practice & Mitigating Risks)
With Christmas only 9 weeks away, many people are preparing to let their hair down, but now is the time for Employer’s to understand their risks and obligations – our latest Quick Guide explores some interesting cases and provides our top tips for having fun this silly season!
Quick Guide: Xmas Shutdown & Remaining Open Over Xmas
Whether you will be open or closed over the Christmas – New Year period, now is the time to start communicating with your team about your intentions (and theirs).
What Should We Do For Our Christmas Party?
Looking for ideas on what to do for your Christmas Party in 2023? Here’s some ideas and tips to get you on your merry way!
5 Things to Action Before Xmas
Christmas is around the corner and employers should be making arrangements for 5 key things right now – here they are!
Applications Open for 2024 HR Foundations Program
Applications Now Open – 2024 HR Foundations Learning & Mentoring Program
More IR Reforms Announced
The IR reforms, changes to awards, and new and changed employee entitlements are the biggest change in the employment relations landscape we have seen in many years. There are more changes coming in 2023, and even more proposed for 2024 – read all employers need to know in our latest update.
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