Compassionate leave is a leave entitlement to employees separate from any other type of leave and is 2 days leave on any one occasion.
S12 of the Fair Work Act sets out who is an eligible family member when it comes to granting an employee compassionate leave.
“immediate family” means:
1. a spouse, de facto partner, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee; or
Superannuation is an employee entitlement. It is a complex issue as to what forms the cost base and many other questions arise.
The Australia Taxation Office provides an informative portal to answer your questions and as well Biz Momentum can assist you too.
If you have employees working from home you are responsible for their health and safety.
You must provide training, instruction, direction, supervision to ensure their home workplace is safe. You are also responsible for any reasonable changes made to their working environment to eliminate or reduce workplace risk.
We are often asked whether you can direct an employee to take excess annual leave. In certain circumstances you can so long as the award covering their employment permits it coupled with a reasonable notice period.
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We have experienced and skilled business practitioners who can assist you, your employees or business in goal setting, career management, business structures, accounting, finance, human resources, employee relations, dispute resolution and many other areas.
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Discrimination is increasingly becoming a favourite method that employees are taking up to seek compensation and redress against employers.
A business was fined $60,000 recently for terminating the employment of 3 people because they were union members.
Over the last 30 years there has been a deluge of training via information and knowledge transfer.
If we ask ourselves a question how much has training really achieved. In our experience not a lot has changed and problems keep increasing in complexity.
Biz Momentum provide hands on equipping through practical seminar where you learn not just the knowledge or information rather ‘how to’. In this way you can go away and immediately implement these tools into your business.
Fair Work is here with all its changes and modern awards. Some practical goals for your business 2010 ‘New Year’s’ resolutions maybe;
1. Review and update your employment agreements for the new changes to be legally compliant;
2. Review your policies and procedures; are they compliant with your employment obligations;
3. Re-induct your employees to remind them of their obligations and remember that if you cannot prove your employees were regularly updated you will be held responsible in the event of a workplace incident.
Payroll records are important sources of information that can assist your business is proving you met your obligations under ‘fair work’ and paid your employees in line with their employment agreements and the award.
Fair Work has a number of regulations regarding what a pay slip should contain and for your convenience we have attached a copy to our post.
This information has been provided by Philip Lye of Biz Momentum. ‘Operating Australia wide’
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