Small business owners experiencing mental health issues Having a mentally healthy workplace is important. Everyday pressures, unexpected life circumstances, stress, depression or anxiety can have a negative impact on your quality of life and ability to run your business. This can…
Written by: Alan Rodway Some of the world’s largest companies are ditching performance reviews as a tool to elevate the performance of people, for one reason, that has been obvious for many years … they don’t work! It’s quite fascinating…
Yes but No! The Current Law says – No an Uber is NOT a Taxi ATO position on ride-sourcing and the FBT taxi travel exemption We recently confirmed our existing view that the taxi travel exemption from FBT does not extend to…
Many businesses have (and should) have all sorts of measures in place to measure the success of the business itself. But measurement of an individual’s performance and a team’s performance is obviously an important part of the measurement and accountability…
PERSONAL LEAVE ACCRUAL CASE GOES TO HIGH COURT Personal Leave Should be Accrued Pro-rata We are very pleased to hear that the Federal Court Decision in the Mondelez v AMWU & Ors case is going to be appealed. Both the employer and…
When businesses appoint someone into a new role, either from the outside or internally, there are five observable phases the person can move through for them to become highly effective. First, it is important to have an understanding of these…
With all of the challenges business (still) experience in maximizing the performance of people it is about time we changed some approaches. Below are mistakes businesses still make: Without necessarily intending to, businesses take predominant responsibility for the performance of their…
People within any business or organisation are actually positioned to perform or to cope, at the two extremes. Clearly, no one would deliberately position them just to cope rather than perform but the reality is that it happens way too…
SINGLE TOUCH PAYROLL PENALTIES Single Touch Payroll (STP) has certainly given bookkeepers and their clients a lot to think about, and we all can appreciate that the ATO has taken a measured and considered approach to its implementation. But we…
