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28.11.2021
Conference topic: Addressing Australia’s Complex Cyber Landscape
In 2021, with so much of a payroll process linked to digital systems, the threat of a cyber security breach is a nightmare scenario for payroll professionals. Data integrity is a key issue for Australian organisations, as well as privacy and ongoing ...
28.11.2021
Thousands of RMIT employees will be back paid $10 million in unpaid wages
RMIT has opted to settle a months-long wage dispute with the National Tertiary Education Union, which will see thousands of current and former employees, mostly casuals, back paid about $10 million. In a statement on Thursday, NTEU Victorian division ...
28.11.2021
Mandatory vaccines: Understanding your rights as an employer
The world has changed drastically in the past two years with a global pandemic knowing no bounds in terms of spread, severity, and sickness. Unfortunately, different variations of strains are still continuing to plague various locations in the world with ...
21.11.2021
Age is just a number: Labour hire company and placement company penalised for discriminating against prospective employee
The general protections provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) are wide-ranging in the sense that they provide protections to, and prohibit adverse action by, persons and entities beyond an employee and an employer. The provisions also ...
21.11.2021
Westpac signs Enforceable Undertaking
Westpac Banking Corporation has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsman and is back-paying thousands of employees a total of $6 million. Westpac self-reported to the Fair Work Ombudsman in April 2020 that it had ...
21.11.2021
Inside the Frontier Software cyber incident
In 2021, with so much of a payroll process linked to digital systems, the threat of a cyber security breach is a nightmare scenario for payroll professionals. This past week that nightmare became a reality for Frontier Software, as their systems were ...