Employment Law Alert: Fair Work raises minimum wage – is your business ready?

What’s the increase? As of 1 July 2024, the hourly minimum rate of pay will be raised by 3.75%. That is: An increase from $23.23 an hour to $24.10; or Approximately an increase of $33 per week (for a full-time employee); or Approximately an additional $1,716 per year (for a full-time employee). Whether your business [...]

2024-06-05T06:03:10+00:00June 4th, 2024|Employment Law|Comments Off on Employment Law Alert: Fair Work raises minimum wage – is your business ready?

Can an employee ghost your messages? Now they can!

An employee’s right to disconnect from their workplace outside of hours is one of the workplace law changes being introduced as part of the Closing Loopholes Bill. These changes in relation to the employee’s right to disconnect will start on: 26 August 2024 for non-small business employers 26 August 2025 for small business employers (14 [...]

2024-03-05T00:00:13+00:00February 27th, 2024|Employment Law|Comments Off on Can an employee ghost your messages? Now they can!

“Tis the season…to be careful” | Considerations for employees

As an employee, you should always be mindful of your interactions with co-workers and colleagues, in and out of work. There have been plenty of cases that have found that misconduct occurred to an employee’s behaviour even when living their personal life outside of working hours. This is more so the case during work-related or organised [...]

2023-11-29T23:53:53+00:00November 29th, 2023|employees, Employment Law|Comments Off on “Tis the season…to be careful” | Considerations for employees

“Jingle all the way…to Fair Work” | Ways a business can mitigate risk

Whilst it’s generally accepted that alcohol can lower a person’s inhibitions and help make us less self-conscious, it can also see personal opinions (that are usually kept to oneself in the office) find their way into a conversation after a few drinks. Whether it be related to race, ethnicity, religion, or gender, given the vastly [...]

2023-11-29T23:45:17+00:00November 29th, 2023|employees, Employment Law|Comments Off on “Jingle all the way…to Fair Work” | Ways a business can mitigate risk
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