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Changes to Awards and minimum rates – Is it time to review your contracts?
Changes to Awards and minimum rates – Is it time to review your contracts? Recently the Fair Work Commission has made decisions relating to the minimum standards and rates of pay applicable under a range of Awards. Awards form the minimum standards for industries and automatically form part of a relevant employee’s employment agreement. Awards […]
Penalty rate reductions in the Hospitality and Retail Sectors
Contact: Mark Poretti On 23 February 2017, the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission handed down a decision reducing some of the penalty rates for Sunday and public holiday work in the hospitality and retail sectors. The decision is part of the FWC’s four yearly review of modern awards which has already seen changes […]
Employee Self-Expression v Employer Corporate Image – Are tattoos and body piercings acceptable in the workplace?
Contact: Mark Poretti These days, tattoos and body piercings are no longer the symbols of a counterculture inhabited by criminal gangs, bikies or punks. Tattoos and body piercings are now considered mainstream and chances are, if you don’t have one yourself, someone in your workplace does. So when is it appropriate for tattoos and piercings […]
