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Company fined $50,000 over drum explosion
This Bulletin has been reissued without the typos in the previous one!! Regrettably I hit the 'publish' key by mistake before I could review the document. It's hard to find good staff. This update was forwarded to us by one of our strategic partners. It should be of...
Dad and Partner Pay – ALERT
From 1 January 2013, there will be a new entitlement to 'Dad and Partner Pay'. This is up to 2 weeks at the National Minimum Wage for working dads or partners (including same-sex partners). These payments will be made by the Government directly into the employees bank...
SMALL BUSINESS CENTRE BUNBURY PANEL BREAKFAST
All Bunbury based members - please be advised that Workwise is undertaking a presentation on behalf of the Small Business Centre here in Bunbury on Tuesday the 12th February. Panelists are Rob Littlewood - speaking on latest changes and topical matters in IR...
Court rules that Performance Management is not ‘adverse action’
This latest Court ruling - detailed in a recent article from 'Workplace Express' which we append below - finds that performance managing an employee appropriately does not equate to taking an 'adverse action' against them. A company did not breach the Fair Work Act's...
Discrimination in Recruitment
Unlawful discrimination in recruitment processes happens, on most occasions, because people who are undertaking the recruiting have not reviewed or really pulled their process apart to see where they are possibly being discriminatory. We have been asked to assist...