Employee Entitlements
Increases from 1 July 2011
The commencement of the new financial year saw an increase in Federal Minimum Wages and the high income threshold for unfair dismissal claims. Read more...
Annual leave loading is to be paid on termination
With the introduction of the modern awards and National Employment Standards on 1 January 2010, there’s been some confusion with regard to whether annual leave loading is to be paid on accrued annual leave paid in lieu on termination. Read more...
National Employment Standards
With the emergence of 2010 we see the commencement of the Modern Awards and the National Employment Standards (NES), as well as the referral of all private sector State employees and employers to the Federal workplace relations system. With all of this, 2010 is set to be another big year for workplace relations. Read more...
New Wage Rates apply from 1 July 2010
Modern awards now cover most workplaces, bringing about a change to minimum terms and conditions of employment. Many of these changes result in an increase in wage rates, penalty rates and allowances from what employers have historically paid employees. Read more...
Paying Employees to attend Training and Meetings outside normal hours of work
There are times when employees engage in activities either during or outside working hours that are related to their work and issues can arise regarding whether the employees should be paid for those activities. Employers mistakenly believe that if the activities are either offsite or outside normal working hours then the employee need not be paid. Read more...
The Paid Parental Leave Act 2010
The Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 (‘Act’) and Paid Parental Leave (Consequential) Amendment Act 2010, came into effect on 1 October 2010. This is a government funded scheme for paid parental leave under which employees may be entitled to receive up to 18 weeks paid parental leave following the birth of their child or placement of an adopted child after 1 January 2011. Read more...
