Tag: Legal

How well do you track and monitor employee expenses? Could your organisation be one step away from a media scandal? Here’s some expert advice for managing this responsibility.

A struggling company can quickly become a serious liability, and the flow-on effects can impact on a director’s personal assets. Here’s a look at one way a director can become liable and what can be done to avoid it.

A service allowing businesses to nationally register their names in a single online process has kicked off, removing costs of up to thousands of dollars and eliminating wasted time spent registering names with various states and territories.

Relationships end and friendships fail, it’s a sad fact of life. But what options are there when a relationship between business shareholders is irreconcilably damaged?

As flexible working becomes a reality for many businesses around the country, SMB owners should know their legal position in regard to employee requests for changes in work arrangements.

Even profitable businesses go bust as a result of cashflow issues, tax debts or other unexpected circumstances – making it vital business owners know the basics of corporate insolvency, so they can protect themselves should anything go wrong.

How often do friends or colleagues go into business together, never stopping to think about a legally binding shareholder agreement until something changes and things get nasty?

Facebook has threatened to take legal action against employers who demand current staff or prospective employees hand over passwords to their Facebook accounts.

From the epic intellectual property war between the mobile communications device titans, insights are emerging for small businesses on how they can successfully wield patent rights and defend against them.

Appointing a corporate advisory board (CAB) offers companies an immediate injection of expertise and opens up a pool of future director talent. Here are some of the pros and cons.