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Are workplace changes for the better?
Latest News & Events A newly released report from the Australian Human Resources Institute tells us that most employers are mostly positive about many of the significant changes to workplace laws that have been introduced in the past few years. Does that come as...
Webinar – Exercising Your Positive Duty With Positivity
Latest News & Events ABOUT From 1 December 2025, all Victorian businesses have a new positive duty to eliminate or reduce psychosocial hazards and that involves a lot more than just doing a risk assessment and updating your policies. It also provides a great...
Court clarifies annual salary rules
Latest News & Events For many years, businesses have been paying people on an annualised salary basis using set off clauses in common law contracts to compensate for and set off monetary award entitlements against over award remuneration. And, a long as people...
Fair Work and Safe Work crossover?
Latest News & Events Recently, Safe Work NSW issued a prohibition notice to an employer directing it to pause in a redundancy consultation process because of concerns that it could have been causing psychological harm to workers. Consultation on redundancy...
Your consultation obligations and AI
Employers already have obligations under modern awards to consult employees about the effects of major change including technology like AI. What do they mean?
Is the sky falling on salaries?
Latest News & Events There has been a lot of noise from employer bodies and conservative media about the Albanese government's decision to legislate protections of penalty rates and overtime loadings but will it really mean the end of salaries as we know them and...
You’re kidding me …..
Latest News & Events Employers might like to think that what happens with an employee outside work is of no concern to them and they have no responsibilities in that regard but is that totally true? The issue Last week, a client called me to enquire about what...
When future lies elsewhere
Should you do exit interviews or stay interviews or something else?
Is this the death knell for labour hire?
Latest News & Events Does the Fair Work Commission Full bench decision on "same job, same pay" and Regulated Labour Hire Arrangement Orders pose a threat to viability of labour hire providers? "We are satisfied that the evidence does not establish that the work...
Changing the mindset on flexible working
Latest News & Events Is it possible for the parties to the current proceedings in the Fair Work Commission re a model working from home term in modern awards to do other than treat it as a contest between employers and workers? Sadly, the answer is "no". Our...
Probation ain’t what it used to be
Latest News & Events One of the most common questions that we get asked is what an employer needs to do if they want to dismiss a new employee during their probation because it isn't working out .... our answer might surprise you. If I sack someone when they are...
Annual Wage Review 2025 decision announced
Latest News & Events The Fair Work Commission has announced the Annual Wage Review 2025 decision which is to increase the minimum wage and award wages by 3.5% from 1 July 2025. No surprise here This is just what we predicted - not a hard one given that the ACTU...
Videos
Episode #2: Understanding the Fair Work System and The Players
Latest News & Events In the second of our 2024 webinar series on "Navigating Fair Work, Modern Awards, Positive Duties and all that people stuff", we look at who all of the regulators and other agencies in the system are, what they are each responsible for and...
Episode #1: The Biggest Era of Change in Employment Law Ever
Latest News & Events The first in our "Navigating Fair Work, Modern Awards, Positive Duties and all that people stuff" webinars designed to help small to medium businesses in understanding our system of employment law, their obligations as employers and where to...
Navigating the biggest era of change in HR ever
Latest News & Events 2022 to 2025 is seeing more changes in employment law, modern awards and compliance requirements than we have ever seen in Australia. This video provides a roadmap of what is happening and when for Victorian employers and employees.CONTACT...
Positive duty on psychosocial hazards
Latest News & Events Last year, the Federal Government passed legislation to impose a positive duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment. Additionally Safe Work Australia published a model Code for Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work and State and Territory...
Fair Work Facts – New Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave
From 1 February 2023, Australian employers with 15+ employees have an obligation to provide all National System employees including casuals with 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave per annum – smaller businesses have that obligation from 1 August 2023 – here are the basics.
A Positive Duty – What you need to know
Latest News & Events In this video, we explain the new positive duty that will up the ante on employer's compliance obligations on sexual harassment, discrimination, victimisation, racial vilification and workplace mental health.CONTACT US Ridgeline Human...
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