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Christmas Parties and Employer Risks
With Christmas only 7 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 update explores some interesting cases and provides our top tips for having fun this silly season!

What Should We Do For Our Christmas Party?
It’s the question on many minds this time of year! Our latest update provides ideas for every type of team, to take the stress out of your decision making.

How Employers Should Be Preparing For Christmas – Only 12 Weeks To Go!
Whether you will be open or shutting down over the Christmas – New Year period, now is the time to start communicating with your team about your intentions (and theirs).

Some Award Wages to Increase From 1 October 2022
Award wages are increasing in October 2022 for some awards in the aviation, hospitality and tourism industries – here’s what employers need to know.

National Day of Mourning for Her Majesty the Queen
Australia will have a one-off public holiday in memory of the late Queen on Thursday 22 September 2022 to allow Australians to pay their respects and reflect on Her Majesty’s extraordinary life of service. Here’s what employers need to know.

Welcome, Madie! Heavy Industry Recruitment Services are here!
We’re excited to announce that Madeline Waller has joined our team as Recruitment Business Partner! Madie joins us with an impressive background, with over a decade of experience recruiting blue and white collar roles for heavy industries Australia-wide.

Recruitment & Turnover Update
100% of our clients are struggling with recruitment and retention – here are our tips and tricks to reassess and improve your recruitment, onboarding, retention, and benefits strategies.

Is Working From Home an Entitlement?
In an Australian first, the term ‘work from home’ was the top search term on SEEK in the June quarter this year (2022), superseding even specific job titles or locations.
Our team was gobsmacked to read this, so this update will provide employers an insight into the forces that play in today’s low unemployment environment coming out of Covid, and how to handle this new trend within the workplace.

Quick Guide to Using Modern Award Pay Guides
If you’ve ever had trouble finding different pay rates, allowances and entitlements in a Modern Award, rest assured you are not alone!
In this Quick Guide, we introduce you to Pay Guides – the documents that exist for each Modern Award providing a simple table of entitlements for each classification and employment type (full-time, part-time, casual, apprentices etc).

Fair Work Ombudsman Priorities 2022 – 23
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has recently announced their strategic priorities for the 2022-2023 financial year. These are a must read for employers to understand where the FWO will be focusing their efforts.

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 ….
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