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Adult juniors to get adult wages
Latest News & Events Lots of modern awards and enterprise agreements have junior rates of pay typically applying to workers who are under 20 or 21 years of age who don't get a full adult wage for the work that they do. In a landmark decision, the Fair Work...
Changing gears on consultation
Latest News & Events We are long used to having obligations to consult employees on matters that affect them under Workplace Health and Safety laws and under modern awards and in other jurisdictions but, in recent years, the focus on consultation has intensified...
How to deal with Working From Home
Latest News & Events The Victorian Government has announced an intention to legislate a right to work from home for up to two days per week which will operate effectively from 1 September 2026 and 1 July 2027 for small businesses. What does this mean in reality...
Sham contracting in the spotlight
Latest News & Events Every few years, the subject of sham contracting gets regulators' attention and those regulators often collaborate with each other across jurisdictions. The Australian Taxation Office and the Fair Work Ombudsman have jointly announced that...
Celebrating Labour Day
Latest News & Events In Victoria, Labour Day falls on Monday 9 March 2026 and the long weekend is full of activities to enjoy with Moomba, the Melbourne F1 Grand Prix and the commencements of the AFL and NRL seasons. So there is lots to do and celebrate ..... but...
Psychosocial hazards – what and where
Latest News & Events One of the challenges for employers who operate across different States and Territories is that each of them have their own laws and regulations on a variety of matters including Workplace Health and Safety. It is often the case that there are...
Is that redundancy genuine?
Latest News & Events Have you had situations where it has been suggested to you that the best way to deal with "a problem employee" is to make them redundant? Unfortunately, we get asked that question too often. Did you know that there are specific criteria that...
Does that termination pass the 3 tents test?
Latest News & Events One of the most challenging things that a small business owner might have to do from time to time is to dismiss and employee for misconduct. Often, that decision is tempered by a fear of the employee making an unfair dismissal claim. What if...
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...
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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