Modern employment awards – are you a risky business?
Picture this:
You are a small business owner.
After getting through the first five years of trade, you are starting to see returns on the time, emotion and finances that you have invested into the business.
Then a document comes in the mail and your fortune turns on its head. You are faced with a claim by a former employee and you realise your business is faced with an unexpected liability worth thousands of dollars. All due to a clause nested in a Modern Award that you had simply overlooked or misunderstood.
Here’s how to avoid becoming that business.
First-quarter employment law tune-up
The end of the first calendar quarter for the year is fast approaching, and this is a great time to think about improving your employment processes and procedures. To get you started, these are our favourite employment law ‘nuts and bolts’ that may need some tightening.
FBT and Not-For-Profits – ‘salary sacrificing’, without the sacrifice
One of the big benefits of being a not-for-profit organisation (NFP) is the availability of tax concessions. But are you making the most of the concessions available to your organisation?
Critical clauses in employment contracts
In this article, we will discuss some of the critical clauses that are often missing from basic employment documents. We will cover what each critical clause does and why it is important, and the potential consequences of not including the clause in your employment documents.
Employers guide to managing sexual harassment in the workplace
Sexual harassment can cost a business dearly in terms of lost productivity, staff turnover, recruitment costs, legal fees and court awarded damages. Two recent court cases have shown us that courts are now prepared to make increasingly large awards to compensate victims of sexual harassment. Here we give you the tools to identify sexual harassment in the workplace, and provide the steps you need to take to prevent it.