A lot of clients would have recently heard about the Royal Commission into the banking sector. While many may think this doesn’t affect them, as they don’t have a loan, or they don’t have dealings with a bank, this isn’t correct. The Banking Sector affects the whole...
Implications of Labor’s Proposed Policies: Property, Investment Property, Franking Credits and Other Issues – Part 1
With the current turmoil in political circles, we thought it timely to provide some commentary on the policies announced by Labor, as Parliament is sitting at the end of this month. Somewhere between May and November 2019, we will see another Federal Election. While...
Business Clients – Tips and Traps on Employment Contracts
Part 3 – What to do next? If you’ve been following this series of emails, you’ll now be aware of some of the over-arching issues businesses might encounter when engaging staff or contractors. You will know now that casual staff, contractors and permanent employees all...
Business Clients – Tips and Traps on Employment Contracts
Part 2 – Is a Casual Employee a Casual Employee? Do you employ casual employees? If so, this article is for you. Employee entitlements, National Employment Standards, Federal Employment Awards, Industrial Relations regulations and Union Representatives – these things...
Contractor vs Employee: what’s the difference?
On the surface, the difference between an employee and a contractor seems simple: one is permanent and one is not. However, the test used by the courts to determine the matter has changed. In order to avoid unexpected personal liability in the case of a dispute, it’s...
Important emails not getting to clients
Over recent months we’ve been told by some of our clients that they haven’t received emails from us, resulting in delays in us meeting their service expectations. The common link in the feedback we’ve received reveals that clients with a Hotmail, MSN, @live.com or...