Tag: Fair Work Ombudsman

Employment legislation can be hard to get your head around, especially if you’re an SMB hiring a variety of workers under different conditions.

EI gives the small business community the opportunity to ask our employment experts their burning employment questions.

The Annual Wage Review decision increased minimum wages by 2.6 per cent from the first full pay period on, or after, 1 July – are you ready?

The cost of getting the classification of contractors wrong is high and anyone with contractors on their books needs to make sure that they’ve been correctly classified for tax, superannuation and fair work purposes.

The Fair Work Ombudsman is cracking down on sham contracting agreements to ensure employers are getting the benefits they deserve. Do you know how to avoid sham arrangements? Follow these tips.

Changes to the National Minimum Wage were implemented on 1 July, with Fair Work Australia urging all employers to ensure they’re across the new Awards.

Australian small businesses are being blindsided by important changes to workplaces laws that took effect on January 1, according to an industry expert.

Employees in Ballarat have through the Fair Work Ombudsman been back-paid over $53,000 after an FWO ombudsman investigation found they had been underpaid.

Stewarts Transport & Logistics Pty Ltd is facing court for allegedly underpaying one of its workers over $3200.

Asteria Joinery’s director Ryan Marsh was fined $16,900 after a prosecution by the Fair Work Ombudsman for underpaying workers at his company more than $31,000.