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29.07.2018
The Truth Hertz: Vehicle Services Attendant Dismissed for Lying on His CV
Source: Athena Koelmeyer, Workplace Law Employers are often required to exercise a significant degree of trust and reliance in job candidates, believing that they will be truthful in recruitment processes. Whilst it is good practice for employers to ...
22.07.2018
Yes, Yes, No: Fwc Rejects Employee’s Bid to Reopen Unfair Dismissal Claim After Parties Fail to Sign
Source: Athena Koelmeyer, Worplace Law One of the first steps that the Fair Work Commission (FWC) takes when dealing with unfair dismissal claims is to require the parties to participate in a conciliation. The purpose of a conciliation is to help the ...
08.07.2018
Registered Agents Providing a Payroll Outsourcing Service
If you provide or employ a payroll service for more than 20 or more employees, you can report through Single Touch Payroll (STP)-enabled software from 1 July 2018, or when your software is ready. Payroll Outsourcing providers will need to be a registered ...
09.08.2017
3 Tips to Avoid Unethical Recruitment Processes
From where I sit I have recently observed a marked increase in the amount of inaccuracy and unethical practices around the use of online job boards in the current payroll job market. A decrease in recruitment ethics is enormously frustrating for ...
12.06.2017
Work Life Balance
Everyone knows the phrase ‘work life balance’, but how many people actually feel like they are achieving it? These days we are all time poor. With everyone having so many commitments, it just doesn’t seem like there’s time left to get it all done. But ...
23.05.2017
How You Can Avoid Being Caught Up in the Next ‘plutus Payroll’ Style Scandal
When Sonya Causer stole almost $20 million dollars from Clive Peeters over 18 months in 2008 and 2009, I thought I’d seen the biggest Australian payroll fraud That figure has been dwarfed in the past week with the alleged $165m tax fraud, involving ...