By Natasha Hawker – Published in FBAA Broker Magazine May 2018 Recently a client of ours, in his excitement and against our instructions, offered a job to the candidate during the actual interview. The offer was based on little more than ‘gut feel’ and he didn’t complete any reference checks. Guess what happened ? The […]
Does this Impact Your Business? The Fair Work Commission has handed down its annual wage review decision delivering a 3.5% increase to both the national minimum wage and the minimum wage for all Modern Awards. The increases will come into effect from 1 July 2018. The Detail Today’s decision increases the national minimum wage by 3.5%. The new national […]
I bet you used to think that using Independent Contractors was easy. Essentially, they needed to be working for you for no more than 80% of the time, have an ABN and invoice you for the work, and – bingo – you had an Independent Contractor. No need to worry about PAYG, workers compensation or […]
So you have have carefully studied the arrangements you have with your independent contractors and taken some good advice to protect yourself from the argument that you may be “Sham Contracting”. You can now sit back and breathe a sigh of relief that they are responsible for all their benefits, right? Not So Fast! […]
What happens when you take a client out for a business lunch? You win more work, writes Natasha Hawker. My career started in Banking & Finance in the late 80’s, when “greed was good”. Trading halted for a 90 minutes lunch and the traders vanished to the pub to mingle with clients and drink 3 […]
Where has all our productivity gone?
27/04/2018By Natasha Hawker Why are Australian businesses not reaching their potential when it comes to productivity? Currently we are lagging behind other OECD countries and our position is not improving. We are behind US, UK, Brazil and France, to name just a few. “Productivity is the real value of output produced by a unit […]
Do you know your HR Basics? If not, Fair Work could be shining a spotlight on your business!
19/04/2018By 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 […]
By Kate Renton Facebook and LinkedIn are out – Snapchat and Instagram are in. And I’m not talking about where to post your latest selfies, I’m talking about the social media channels you’ll need to use for recruitment if you are trying to attract Gen Z. Here are the 8 most important things to consider […]
Back in April 2017, the Government announced that they would be replacing the Temporary Work (Skilled) 457 visa with the completely new Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) visa from March 2018. Since the announcement there has been over 200 occupations removed from the occupation lists used for skilled migration visas, including the 457 and 407 (training) […]
By David Brown, Employee Expert As business owners, we’re always managing risk and one of the risks that we see coming for you is around the greatly increased awareness and acceptance when raising a sexual harassment complaint. The #MeToo movement started last year, following issues in the USA and has resulted in several high profile […]