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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 ...
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 ...
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