What if my business partner gets hit by a bus?

Firstly, if you pushed him or her in front of said bus, you’re probably off to jail. If not, then after mourning appropriately, you’d probably be wondering, ‘what happens now?’ Unfortunately, many co-owners of a business will often not turn their minds to a roadmap for the business (and the partners left behind) until such [...]

2020-05-12T04:26:45+00:00February 27th, 2019|Business Advice, Business Partnerships, Contracts, Corporate Advisory|Comments Off on What if my business partner gets hit by a bus?

Paying penalty rates – what we can learn from Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut are now required to pay its workers fast food industry award rates including higher penalties after their union was successful in terminating 30 old enterprise agreements. Most of the agreements were negotiated at least a decade ago and whilst the agreements did not include penalty rates in return for higher pay, the agreements [...]

2020-05-12T04:26:54+00:00February 6th, 2019|Business Advice, Contracts, Corporate Advisory, employees, Employment Law|Comments Off on Paying penalty rates – what we can learn from Pizza Hut

Why the dispute resolution clause in your contracts is important (A.K.A. Everyone is friends until they’re not!)

In preparing commercial contracts a clause will often be inserted (generally at the prompting of the drafting lawyer) to provide a procedure for dealing with disputes. Often, very little consideration is given to such clauses as parties to the contract are (quite understandably) more excited and focused on the project at hand and the best [...]

2020-05-12T04:27:00+00:00February 5th, 2019|Business Advice, Business Partnerships, Contracts, Corporate Advisory, Dispute Resolution|Comments Off on Why the dispute resolution clause in your contracts is important (A.K.A. Everyone is friends until they’re not!)
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