HR Advice

A recent court finding has meant that personal/carer’s leave for part-time employees needs to be treated differently from now on. The court found that part-time employees are entitled to 10 days [...]

Annual leave is an often overlooked employee benefit, the careful management of which can save your business significant sums of money. Cashing out annual leave Most employees now can cash out [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again (less than 9 weeks until Christmas!) and business owners turn our minds to the year ahead while quietly reviewing the year that has been. How was your year? [...]

The NSW Office of State Revenue has a little known scheme to encourage businesses to fill new positions. Basically there are 2 schemes: If you don’t pay payroll tax (ie your annual salary [...]

Some useful salary thresholds for your HR and payroll teams (all effective 1/7/15): Access to unfair dismissal legislation – $136,700. Maximum payout is $68,350 Highest salary employers [...]

From 1/7/15 the minimum weekly wage will be $656.90, a 2.5% increase. Hourly this equates to $17.29; yearly $34,158.80. All Award wages will increase by the same amount on 1/7/15 – make [...]

Car Expenses From 1/7/15 there will be a flat per kilometre allowance of 66 cents, regardless of the size of the car’s engine. Paid Parental Leave If your employer provides a paid parental [...]

Well, it’s finally happened. The Federal Government has dumped for good their planned paid parental leave scheme which had been billed as one of their cornerstone policies running up to the [...]

Anzac Day 2015 falls on a Saturday. The only state in Australia to get the following Monday (April 27) as a Public Holiday is Western Australia. For everyone else Monday April 27 will be a normal [...]

In a recent case before the Federal Court of Australia (Richardson v Oracle) the applicant was successful in appealing against the inadequacy of an $18,000 payout for sexual harassment. The [...]