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Understanding Industrial Instruments in Employment. Is Your Business Compliant?

Do you know which industrial instruments cover your employees? If the answer is that they are all award-free, our experts suggest it’s time for a thorough review.

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Workplace Training: Why it is Important in a Compliance Conversation

Workplace training is an organisation’s best defence to building a compliance-first culture.

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New Queensland Sexual and Gender-based Harassment Prevention

Effective 1 March 2025, under the Work Health and Safety (Sexual Harassment) Amendment Regulation 2024 (Qld), employers will be required to develop a written prevention plan.

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Smart Workplace Policies, Stronger Cultures: Compliance Made Clear

Workplace policies must be more than just words on paper. They should be clear, current, enforceable, and effectively communicated to employees.

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How to Detect Compliance Issues in Your Business: Spot the ‘Red Flags’

If compliance issues are becoming apparent in your business, engage specialists, preferably external, to conduct a compliance audit.

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FWO Secured Largest Penalties in its 15-Year Run – $473 Million for Underpayments

Employers have had to pay out $473 million to employees for underpayments and pay a further $21.2 million in court ordered penalties.

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Criminalising the Deliberate Underpayment of Wages, Effective from 1 January 2025

Intentional underpayment of wages and other entitlements is now a criminal offence, marking a critical time for businesses to address compliance.

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Employer’s Best Protection: Moving Past Checkbox Compliance

The concept of ‘lunchtime training sessions’ don’t compare to formal structured training sessions, as this recent Fair Work case demonstrates.

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When a Valid Reason Isn’t Enough: Lessons from a Recent Unfair Dismissal Case

An unfair dismissal matter handed down by Fair Work emphasises the need to satisfy two tests when considering termination of a staff member.

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