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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 […]

Poor leadership can, and will, increase employee turnover – and the associated costs involved with re-hiring, re-training and bringing employees back up to the required level of productivity, can vary from 50% to 150% of their annual salary. Have I got your attention?  Click Here for complete article

Businesses in Australia are becoming subject to an increasing focus on incidents of wage theft. The Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Act of 2017 has introduced significantly higher penalties for a range of contraventions. Fines of up to $630,000 for a company and $126,000 for an individual now apply in relation to matters that […]

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 Paul Ackerman In recent months the Fair Work Ombudsman has begun auditing one thousand businesses across Australia as part of a new campaign to ensure employers have the basics right in their workplaces. Whilst many business owners may think they are doing everything necessary to meet their obligations, preliminary findings from the Workplace Basics […]

Employee wellbeing is a key issue that companies are striving to address to ensure that their employees remain happy and motivated at work. After all, a happy workforce is a productive workforce. We’ll take you through how to incorporate wellbeing practices into your office design or fit out project. For complete Article click Here Reproduced […]

By Nardia Vescovi-Diss Having gone through the suggestions in our previous blogs, having a clear policy, having those first difficult conversations, perhaps invoking your drug testing policy, you now know that your employee has a problem with drugs.  So where to from here? You understand that supporting and promoting employee health and wellbeing is not […]

By Nardia Vescovi-Diss Great work, you’ve got your policies and procedures in place regarding Drugs and Alcohol, you’re taking a preventative approach and building it into your recruitment and wellbeing strategies, and all of your team have signed off that they understand the policy, all sorted! And then, one of your Managers calls to say […]

by Nardia Vescovi-Diss OK, so you’ve decided that it’s time to make sure that you’ve got your Work Health & Safety (WH&S) obligations covered, your WH&S policy is sorted, safety officers are in place, someone’s been trained in first aid, fire and emergency evacuation, you’ve got your Workcover insurance, even an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), […]

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 […]