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30.01.2022
Payroll Manager awarded $1.1million damages for foreseeable work injury
A Queensland local government employee has been awarded more than a million dollars compensation for a work injury that a judge has ruled was caused by his employer’s negligence. Queensland Supreme Court Justice James Henry also found that the ...
30.01.2022
Easter Sunday to be a public holiday in WA
Easter Sunday will be established as a public holiday in Western Australia, and new provisions are being implemented in the state industrial relations system for the Easter Sunday public holiday entitlements. These changes have been introduced by the ...
23.01.2022
Super for contractors
If you pay contractors mainly for their labour, they are employees for superannuation guarantee (SG) purposes, and you may need to pay super to a fund for them. It doesn’t matter if the contractor has an Australian business number (ABN). Make super ...
23.01.2022
CBA in $45 million underpayment stoush
The Financial Sector Union has accused Commonwealth Bank of cheating employees out of $45 million by failing to allow many of them to take paid breaks. In filings lodged Friday with the Federal Court, the FSU accused CBA of failing to allow employees to ...
23.01.2022
SA Government issues breach notice to hacked payroll provider
Payroll software provider Frontier Software has been issued with a breach of contract notice over a ransomware attack that saw the personal details of 80,000 South Australian public servants stolen. Department of Treasury and Finance chief David Reynolds ...
16.01.2022
When is it a vocational placement or internship and when is it employment?
A vocational placement is a formal work experience arrangement that is part of an education or training course. Vocational placements can give students important skills to help them transition successfully from study to work, while giving industry and ...
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