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16.01.2022
If an employee gets COVID on annual leave, can they use sick leave instead?
In general, an employee may switch to sick leave and use that entitlement if they are sick on annual leave. It doesn’t matter that the annual leave has already been booked and approved or has already started; the employee still has the right to convert ...
09.01.2022
More than $189,000 recovered for Adelaide workers
The Fair Work Ombudsman has recovered $189,316 in wages for 306 underpaid workers after it investigated employers in a ‘cheap eats’ food precinct in Adelaide. Fair Work Inspectors targeted 58 businesses in and around Adelaide’s Chinatown precinct and ...
09.01.2022
Unpaid pandemic leave entitlements extended in many awards
The Fair Work Commission has extended the entitlement to unpaid pandemic leave under Schedule X in many awards. Leave taken under Schedule X now needs to start by 30 June 2022. Annual leave flexibility provisions haven’t been extended and will end on 31 ...
19.12.2021
Looking for a new way to use your payroll expertise in 2022?
Work/life balance and flexibility is very important to us at APA. We know that the best customer service is delivered by a happy, motivated and inspired team. But we have a problem. We have work booked well into the new year and need to expand our team ...
19.12.2021
ParaQuad signs Enforceable Undertaking
The Paraplegic & Quadriplegic Association of NSW (ParaQuad) has back-paid staff more than $705,000 and entered into an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsman. ParaQuad is a large charity employing about 334 staff in the disability ...
19.12.2021
Bupa underpays 18,000 staff up to $75m
Over recent weeks, it has been announced that Westpac backpaid $6 million owed to 6400 former and current employees; Emirates Leisure Retail underpaid airport workers by $5.1 million; labour hire firm Hudson Global Resources admitted underpaying 5325 ...
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