Secure Jobs Better Pay
Amended Fair Work Act to Include a Range of New Workplace Laws On the 6th of December 2022, the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022 (Cth) (Act) received Royal Assent and became law. Some of the…
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Employer fined $90k for mandating a 50-hour work week
An Australian employer has been fined a total of $90,000 after the Federal Court found that it had unreasonably required an employee to work 50 hours per week. This requirement was found to be in contravention of section 62 of the Fair Work…
Remove the Buying and Selling Blockages
Businesses go to significant effort to create products they can profitably sell. But having a quality product is sometimes not enough especially if there are buying or selling blockages at play. This article looks at some typical blockages and how…
Salary Sacrifice and Super Guarantee (SG) Law
Salary Sacrificing Super An employee may agree to sacrifice part of their salary or wages to their superannuation fund from their gross earnings. It’s important for the employee to review and understand the thresholds to ensure the total of salary…
How to Generate Referrals
One of the most productive ways to generate business revenue is through referrals. This article gives a variety of ways to get them, on three fronts: Referrals to source new clients Referrals are much easier to derive from relationships than…
Driving Value from Planning Days
Written by: Alan Rodway What value do you get from your planning days? We need to make the most of them, to create significant and positive improvements for the future. Here are some ‘musts’ to run high value Planning days:…
Why So Many Are In The Wrong Job
Written by: Alan Rodway We contend that a lot of people in Australia are in the wrong job. Can that be proven? Probably not, but we suspect a lot of people would agree (those in the wrong job, those around…
Performance Reviews Don’t Work…So What Does?
Written by: Alan Rodway Some of the world’s largest companies are ditching performance reviews as a tool to elevate the performance of people, for one reason, that has been obvious for many years … they don’t work! It’s quite fascinating…
Talk Straight and Care
Written by: Alan Rodway We spend a lot of time discussing the importance of (living) values in running a successful organisation. Two of the most important (if not THE most important) are Talk Straight and Care. What is talk straight?…