Employment

The pressure to remain ‘efficient’ and responsive to changing customer needs and business realities, leads many businesses to review their operating process, technologies and structures.  Upgrading machinery, software or adopting …
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From Conferences to Christmas Parties, Work Events are often seen as a reward directed to staff but have the effect of not only amplifying the performance management pressures on the …
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One of the unwritten rules in any workplace is not to compare salaries.

It can create team disharmony, jealousy and a nightmare for bosses.

But it turns out that bit …
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Managing poor performance in the workplace can be a stressful time for the business as well as for the employee.  This weeks HR Highlight will round out the last few …
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Earlier this week, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) released a special report that examined the different pricing behaviours of businesses operating in the Australian retail fuels market during …
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In the first of the cases using the reverse onus of proof under the Vulnerable Workers provisions, a small, family run business has received double the penalty in a wage …
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Managing poor performance in the workplace can be a stressful time for the business as well as for the employee.  This weeks HR Highlight will expand on the last few …
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So, Wesfarmers has underpaid its employees by some $15 million. It is now very obvious the workplace relations system is too complicated.

At a recent CEDA event Attorney-General Christian Porter, …
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Managing poor performance in the workplace can be a stressful time for the business as well as for the employee.  This weeks HR Highlight will expand on last weeks foray …
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The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured $57,000 in penalties in Court against major service station chain Westside Petroleum and three of its management staff for underpaying 22 employees a total …
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