In the face of current economic challenges, it’s critical that business owners and people leaders invest in their employees and their people management. Watch this online session to learn how taking an employee-centred approach to your budget is vital to surviving & thriving in FY25, including: How to restructure – not fracture – your business […]
It took four years for Melbourne’s Antony Balmain to finally receive unpaid wages from his previous employer. The media and communications professional had worked at the Red Cross, which applied the wrong award or enterprise agreement to employees and incorrectly classified employees, resulting in a range of minimum rates and entitlements. “It was an unsavoury […]
Natasha Hawker talks with Cathie Schnitzerling on ABC Radio about Wage Theft. What it is, how you can identify and remedy it and who can ask for help either as an employee or business. Listen in below.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]