Fair Work best practice guides aim to help small businesses and employees with a range of workplace issues. By adopting best practice initiatives, employers and employees can achieve happier, fairer and more productive workplaces. Each guide has a checklist to…
Every business person knows how to be healthy and fit: Eat predominantly healthy food Manage sleep patterns Exercise regularly Manage weight and body fat Manage stress levels Regular medical checks Most business people could also be said to be smart…
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has commenced the first legal action utilising new reverse onus of proof laws that require employers to disprove underpayment allegations in Court when they have failed to keep adequate time and wages records or issue…
We are often asked how to identify high value activities (HVA’s) within a business or career, and how to devote optimal time and effort to them. This high performance action covers both questions. A HVA is one that produces (disproportionately)…
The rules for claiming deductions for payments to workers are changing. From 1 July 2019, employers can only claim deductions for payments made to workers where they’ve met the pay as you go (PAYG) withholding obligation for that payment. Where…
Excerpt from ATO – Superannuation contribution cap changes Find out if the superannuation contribution cap changes affect you. This information is relevant to you if you: receive contributions from your employer into super salary sacrifice into super make personal contributions to their…
Travel expenses relating to a residential investment property are not deductible. A residential premise (property) is land or a building that is: occupied as a residence or for residential accommodation intended to be occupied, and is capable of being occupied,…
The Fair Work Commission has varied a number of awards as part of its Modern Award Review. The changes affect rules about casual conversion, minimum engagement periods and rostering arrangements. You can check the changes to your award in the…
Success can drown happiness. That probably seems a highly illogical statement … but it depends on how you define success. We contend, strongly, based on the lives of so many people that success can stifle general happiness. History is littered…
