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• Welcome Daniel Le
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• Tip #1: Settle all your business’ outstanding matters
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• What is in a brand?
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• Trade Marks: ‘Why you need to register your trade mark (How to protect your brand)’
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• Compliments of the Holiday Season
• Now is the best time to prepare for the new year
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• Director Identification Numbers – Important Information!
• The NFT and copyright conundrum
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• Social Impact Business Meet-Up: Tuesday 8th November from 7.30am-8.30am

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• Without Prejudice
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• Director Identification Numbers
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• NEW VERSION: Fair Work Information Statement

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• I’m baaaack’ – the ATO recommences debt recovery action with a vengeance!
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• From 1 July 2022 the superannuation guarantee percentage will increase to 10.5%
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• Employer Alert – Upcoming Changes to Super Contributions
• ATO Recommencing Directors Penalty Notices – Company Directors Take Note!
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• Everything you need to know about PPSR
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• Commercial Leasing Basics – The importance (and dangers) of Personal Guarantees
• Victorian Government Business Stimulus Package
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• March 8th: International Women’s Day

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• Changes to Victoria’s Pandemic Orders for “Specified Facilities” and “Specified Workers”
• Commercial Leasing Basics – Accurately describing and assessing the ‘Permitted Use’
• Sale of Business Basics: Asset or Share Sale?

• B Corp Journey Webinar – Learn why and how to build a business for the greater good!

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• Happy New Year
• Commercial Leasing Basics – Who pays lease preparation costs?
• Your IP needs lovin’ too!
• Go Outside

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• Compliments of the Holiday Season
• Now is the best time to prepare for the new year
• Start Your Business on the Right Foot
• ‘The new luxury’: How Rankin Business Lawyers puts employee wellbeing first

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• Director Identification Numbers
• Changes to the Fair Work Act – Access to Compassionate Leave for Miscarriage
• Webinar: COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace – what employers need to know
• NewAccess for Small Business Owners

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• Fair Work Commission Full Bench Decision Upholds Dismissal of Unvaccinated Worker Who Refused Flu Shot
• Rent Relief Mandatory Reassessment Due 31 October 2021
• Sale of Business Basics: Asset or Share Sale?
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• New Competition Law Guide for Small Business
• 2021 Commercial Tenancy Rent Relief Scheme
• Your rights and responsibilities as an online business
• Have you got a Cyber Security Strategy?

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• The importance of knowing your obligations
• Restraint of Trade vs Exclusivity
• Making the most of your downtime
• BCorp Best for the World: Workers

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• Changes to Defamation Laws
• The Fair Work Commission has announced that the National Minimum Wage will increase by 2.5%
• Managing your legal costs
• Planning for FY2022

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• Wellbeing and Mental Health Support for Victorian Small Businesses
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• Are your employment agreements and procedures up to date?
• We are 7!

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• Fair Work finds in favour of childcare employer requiring staff vaccinations
• Casual employees – Important changes businesses need to know
• The importance of Shareholders’ Agreements
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• IP Australia COVID-19 Extension of Time Ended
• Mind your business: The importance of guarding your intellectual property in supply relationships
• Do you need to update your parental leave policy?
• Rankin + B Corporation

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• Welcome Tracy Dutt
• Upcoming changes to unfair contract term legislation
• Is your business ready for the end of JobKeeper?
• March 8th: International Women’s Day

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• Should I formally document my arrangements with suppliers? The (not so) obvious commercial advantages of Supply Agreements
• Vaccinating seafarers – an essential workforce?
• Roll With The Punches
• ASIC Cyber Security Proceedings Initiated

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• Happy New Year
• Key Insolvency Reforms You Need to Know!
• Daniel’s Donuts
• Meet the team: Elizabeth Chase, Consultant

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• Welcome Vik Pillay
• Beware! Rise in dodgy insolvency providers ahead of surge in personal and corporate insolvencies
• miei. : Ordinary people working together to make extraordinary things happen
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• Crusader Caravans : An Australian Manufacturing Success Story
• Like buying a 1999 Saab convertible: The importance of understanding the commercial lease obligations when buying a bargain business
• Wording is so important in employment law – meaning of the word “day”
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• Amendments to Commercial Tenancy Relief Scheme gives Small Business Commission the power to make binding determinations
• Insolvency relief extension
• Do you value the value of your IP?
• A quick Q&A covering COVID-related employment scenarios

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• Welcome Ann-Maree Migale
• The impending lift of COVID-19 insolvency relief – where to from here?
• The new normal: key issues to address for a successful recovery
• Further Land Tax Relief for Landlords
• Team Talk Podcast: Hot Legal Stuff with Rob Rankin

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• JobKeeper Extensions
• Another lockdown, another rent relief request
• “We don’t have to worry, the Consumer Law doesn’t apply to us”- From July 2021, it just might!
• Coping during COVID-19

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• National Minimum Wage
• COVID-19: what to do if your SME is struggling financially
• Digital Transformation imperative in a post COVID-19 era
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• Returning to the workplace post-lockdown: Are you prepared?
• Casual employees on the JobKeeper scheme refusing to work – is this allowed?
• Victorian Small Business Commission publishes COVID Tenancy Regulations Guidance & Mental Health Information Sheet
• 30 June is fast approaching! Are you ready?
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• Insolvency laws and how to handle debt recovery during the COVID-19 crisis when debtors are failing to pay
• Board meetings in pyjamas: Tips for conducting digital board meetings while working remotely
• Do you need to enter Australia but are unsure how to with the current travel restrictions?
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• Jobkeeper Subsidy Payment – what you need to know
• The landlord hardship discussion: Being genuine, transparent and compassionate to get the best outcome from your landlord
• The Victorian courts are effectively closed for new business (except for the Supreme Court) and existing hearings have been cut right back
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• Reviewing Commercial Leases: Why just any legal egg-head won’t do
• Misclassification of Workers in the Entertainment Industry
• International Women’s Day : #IWD2020 #EachforEqual

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• Changes to Annualised Salary Clauses in Modern Awards – 1 March 2020
• Show some restraint! Ensuring you’re not letting the fox into the hen house when taking on a new partner
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• We are hiring!

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• Whistleblower policies must be in place by 1 January 2020
• Employees set to benefit under new Superannuation laws
• Flexible work arrangements: making work, work
• Go Outside

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• Consumer guarantees and product warranties: Can your business afford to get it wrong?
• Is it illegal for someone to record or film me?
• Start Your Business on the Right Foot
• Compliments of the Holiday Season

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• Spotlight on Employees of Negligent Bosses
• Who can be bothered! – The importance of carefully preparing and keeping Minutes of Board Meetings
• The Silly Season and How to Survive It – The Legal Perspective
• I’m Just a Man 3 – Mental Health Awareness Gala

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• Welcome Francine Clancy
• Is your business compliant with Victoria’s new Labour Hire Laws?
• Are you a freelance artist or contractor thinking of heading over to California for work?
• Spring Clean!

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• Like friends at your beach house in January: How charging clauses have a funny way of just turning up
• How should I be credited on a film, tv or music project?
• Calling Australia home
• BCorp News
• Best For The World: Workers 2019

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• Important notice for labour hire businesses
• My lawyer is not miserable and its frankly disorienting! Why working flexibly has made all the difference for me
• Better Business for a Better World
• Walk & Shine –  Fundraiser Saturday 3rd August

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• Important notice for labour hire businesses
• Want to know the first thing your lawyers do when you ask them to look at your agreement? Check that you actually have one!
• Better Business for a Better World – Celebrating BCorp month
• 15th annual Victorian Legal Awards

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• Moral Clauses
• Accounting for IP in a Sale of Business: Know what you’re giving away (and charge for it!)
• All care and no responsibility: Why unreasonable standard terms contracts might be a risk to your business
• We’ve hit the five year milestone!

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• I’ll take your business but not your problems! – The importance of understanding lease reinstatement obligations when purchasing a business
• The net is closing in: Is your website about to land you in this trap?
• Espresso Martinis + Impact

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• How to avoid an expensive and disruptive dispute
• Land tax bill a kick in the guts? Wait until you get your landlord’s one!
• General Protections – Rankin’s Workplace Relations Forum
• Business as a force for good

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• Welcome Rebekah O’Sullivan
• Entertainment Visas
• What If My Business Partner Gets Hit By A Bus?
• International Women’s Day 2019 #BalanceforBetter

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• Why the Dispute Resolution Clause in your Contracts is Important (A.K.A. Everyone is Friends Until They’re Not!)
• Paying Penalty Rates – What we can Learn from Pizza Hut
• Podcast: Reducing Risk in the Workplace with Rachel Derrico
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• Your IP needs lovin’ too!
• Underpaying your employees may cost you more than you think
• No BS, flexibile working (even for our admin team!)
• Adhering to dress codes in 2019

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• Why would I pay for your business when you’ve already given it to me? The importance of a well-crafted Confidentiality Agreement in sale negotiations
• ACCC proactively addresses unfair dairy contract terms
• APRA to Impose Strict Cyber Security Rules
• The Silly Season and How to Survive It – The Legal Perspective

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• Long service leave changes apply 1 November 2018
• What’s Mine is Yours! Owning Your IP in the Gig Economy
• November Already! How did that Happen?
• Melbourne BCorp Business Group – Networking with Heart

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• PPSR: Boring as Hell, but Important for Landlords!
• Termination of ABC’s Managing Director – Potential Legal Claims
• Working Overseas
• BCorp: Wellness in the Workplace

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• Introducing Terry Lyons, Community Manager
• Assignment of a Lease: When Can a Landlord Refuse to Consent?
• Cleaning Business Recommendations Due in October 2018
• Do Your Casual Employees Have the Right to Convert to Permanent Employment?
• R Ur Employees OK? – HR Discussion Group

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• Rankin Law Update: Think you’re safe because you’re B2B? Well read on, it’s time to review your T&C’s!
• Rankin Law Update: Manufacturers and consumer rights
• Rankin Law Update: Parliamentary inquiry into franchises!
• Podcast: Wondering where all the progressive employers are? 
• Australian Law Awards: Boutique Law Firm of the Year 2018

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• Welcome Fiona McLay and Pablo Wundheiler, Special Counsel
• Rankin Law Update: Domain Corp Scammers Busted!
• Rankin Law Update: Trading Goods from Overseas?
• Rankin Event: Preventing Discrimination in Recruitment
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• Welcome Steve Gifford, Workplace Relations Practice Group Leader
• Happy 4th Birthday!
• In the spotlight: Joseph Carneli, Senior Associate
• Announcement: Rankin drops the ‘& Co.’
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• Welcome Sarah Petrie, Secretary of State
• It’s Time to Review Your Privacy Policy
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• Lawyers Weekly Article: The New Law Firm Shunning Short-Term Fixes for Staff Engagement

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• It’s Time to Work on that Million-Dollar Idea! …Or at Least Protect it from Imitation.
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• Start Your Business on the Right Foot
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• Welcome Sofia Garcia Ladera, Consultant
• Employers and Franchisors Beware – New Bill Strengthens Watchdog and Imposes Tougher Penalties for Breaches of Workplace Laws
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• Welcome Robert Patterson, Chief Operating Officer
• Business Succession Planning
• ID numbers for directors as Turnbull government cracks down on phoenix companies
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• Welcome Holly Bailey, Executive Assistant
• Shareholder Agreements
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• New disciplinary options needed as Chevron unfairly sacks worker over racist slur
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• Welcome Rachel Derrico, Senior Associate
• Casual Conversion
• Safe Harbour Provisions (also a par on new ipso facto provisions)
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• Underquoting Laws
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• The importance of having a solicitor review your lease
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• ‘State of Land’ Report Released
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• ATO Debt will soon show on Credit Reports
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• Workplace Laws: Underpayment of employees
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• Budget 2016
• Australian Consumer Law Applied to Foreign Company
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