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By Morgan Howard In the media lately, we hear A LOT about bullying and harassment cases; disturbing accounts of incidents and events that have happened to people within their workplaces and employers that have had to pay large fines as a consequence of these events, often occurring without their direct knowledge.   At Employee Matters, […]

Published by Bowen Eldridge – When it comes to recruitment, consider your CV as an advert about you. Now think, would you be interested in a product that advertised itself in a sloppy way, with spelling errors and left you guessing about what it did? No, no you wouldn’t. Therefore, make sure your advert is presented […]

The Coalition wins the election and Labor’s argument that the reduction in penalty rates, for some sectors is unfair, does not resonate with the voters.  Does this represent the end of the Coalition’s 12-year industrial relations hangover from ‘Work Choices’ as we are about to embark on a new wave of pro-business IR reform?  Put […]

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 […]