How are you handling privacy risks in your business? Even as a small to medium business, if you are handling personal information of your clients, customers, employees, or any other stakeholder, you should have processes in place to ensure compliance with privacy laws and regulations, mitigate potential harms, and safeguard personal information. The most effective [...]
Australia’s unfair contract terms (UCT) framework came into existence in 2010, when protections against unfair trading terms embedded within the Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No.1) 2010 became part of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL). This change had the effect, in practice, of rendering unfair terms in standard form consumer contracts void. Further [...]
Prior to 2022, the test of whether a person was considered to be an independent contractor or employee was based on applying a multi-factorial test (‘MFT’). The MFT looked at the substance of the relationship between the parties (how they operated with one another), over the actual form it was recorded (what the written contracted [...]
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 [...]
