Compliance

Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker has announced the regulator’s strategic priorities for the year ahead, which include supporting all workplaces through the COVID-19 pandemic and addressing large corporate underpayments.

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The National Wage Case has an impact on all employment every year, and no more than this year, where a staggered pay rate increase has caused confusion and concern among …
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One of the state’s biggest private employers has lost in its bid to overturn a controversial workplace ruling that could affect thousands of its current and former staff.

Shahin Enterprises, the company …
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Ensuring that the salary provided to any employee, but particularly a manager, can be difficult.  This difficulty can result in spectacular consequences as wave of sophisticated businesses that have failed …
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Model Annualised Salary Clauses will come into effect in March 2020 following last years changes to 19 modern awards that currently contain an Annualised Salary Clause, including the Clerks – …
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Attorney-General Christian Porter is preparing to put his promised wage theft bill to cabinet in the coming weeks, while at the same time working to revive his union-busting bill in …
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January 2020 saw the implementation of the Salary Sacrifice Integrity measures, two connected measures which have a significant impact on the operation of salary sacrifice and the meeting of the …
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Former ACCC chairman Allan Fels has backed calls to use artificial intelligence and data matching to detect wage theft, saying technology should be a key weapon in tackling the “systemic” …
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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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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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