by Paulette | Nov 9, 2023 | Employment Relations, HR Solutions, Small business, Small Business HR, Uncategorized, Workplace Articles
Flexible work arrangements work. But rather than relying solely on our word, let’s look at some data. According to studies, when employees have flexibility in their working options, 71% of them describe their teams as innovative, compared to 57% of those who...
by Paulette | Nov 2, 2022 | Award Provisions, Payroll Compliance, Small business
Annualised wage arrangements for restaurant, cafe and hospitality workers changed on 1st September 2022. From 1 September 2022, annualised wage arrangements in the following awards are changing: Restaurant Award Hospitality Award Our team at Fresh HR Insights every...
by Paulette | Oct 22, 2022 | HR Expert, Payroll Compliance, Small business, Topics of Conversation
The Fair Work Ombudsman recovered more than $532 million for 384,805 underpaid workers in 2021-22 – a record sum of back-paid wages and entitlements for a record number of employees. The advice from the Fair Work Ombudsman is that all employers must prioritise putting...
by Paulette | Oct 3, 2022 | Payroll Compliance, Small business
STP Phase 2 Single Touch Payroll (STP) commenced on the 1st of July 2018 for employers with 20 or more employees. The ATO undertook a long period of consultation with businesses, software/digital service providers (DSP), and those who would be affected such as...
by Paulette | Sep 28, 2022 | Casual Employees, Payroll Compliance, Small business, Small Business HR
Penalty Calculations Cumulative versus Compounding When we apply penalties or loadings to a rate of pay we can apply different approaches. These can be either cumulative or compounding. A cumulative approach involves adding a penalty or loading to a base rate of pay...
by Paulette | Sep 13, 2022 | Employment Relations, HR Consultant, Small business, Workplace Articles
The industry code of conduct provides organisations with the necessary regulatory support. They help guard against misconduct and opportunistic behaviour and foster change to cultivate a positive and productive business culture. But what if your employees don’t have a...
by | Mar 29, 2020 | Small business, Small Business HR
HR Help When You Need it WOW what can one say at the moment – the situation we are under is one that we have never seen before and it will change the landscape of the world we live in. I hope that you and your business are doing OK so far or at least able to come...
by admin2022 | Jan 8, 2016 | Building A Workforce, Employing People, Human Resource, Recruitment, Small business, Small Business HR, Workplace Articles
When do you know it is time to start recruiting – at what stage of the work tasks is it too much for just you Recruiting is a tricky job; let it be recruitment in Gold Coast or anywhere else in the world. It may be employing of the first time or replacement...
