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Annual Wage Review 2025 decision announced

by Peter Maguire | Jun 3, 2025 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, Compliance, Fair Work, Modern Awards, Wage Obligations

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...

FWO publishes underpayment remediation guide

by Peter Maguire | May 22, 2025 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, C3: Competency, Compliance, Modern Awards, Wage Obligations

Latest News & Events We have one of the most complicated systems of employment and wages regulation in the world and we now have a criminal offence of wage theft and greatly increased civil penalties that you can be sanctioned with if you get it wrong. So what do...

Dealing with the positive duty to prevent sexual harassment

by Peter Maguire | May 21, 2025 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, C3: Competency, C4: Culture, Compliance, Psychosocial hazards, Sexual harassment, Workplace wellbeing

Latest News & Events As people will be aware, there has been a huge amount of publicity on the subjects of sexual harassment and gender inequalities in recent times and there are significant changes that have happened or are about to happen in multiple...

The results are in – what next?

by Peter Maguire | May 6, 2025 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, C3: Competency, C4: Culture, Compliance, Employee Engagement, Fair Work, News

Latest News & Events The Albanese Government has had a landslide victory at the federal election - so what does that mean for employers? One thing that this resounding election victory for Labor signals is that we have certainty about what the future of federal...

What are the big HR issues for SMBs in 2025?

by Peter Maguire | Jan 13, 2025 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, C3: Competency, C4: Culture, Compliance, Fair Work, Human Resources, Modern Awards, Psychosocial hazards, Sexual harassment, Wage Obligations

Latest News & Events Hey everyone, 2025 is already shaping up as another big year of legal change so we are running a free webinar to give you the heads up on what the big issues are this year. Headlining that list is the new criminal offence of wage theft and...

More award changes from Aged Care Work Value Case

by Peter Maguire | Jan 12, 2025 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, Compliance, Fair Work, Human Resources, inclusion and equity, Modern Awards, Wage Obligations

Further changes with the Aged Care and SCHADS Awards happening from 1 January 2025 – wage increases, changes to award coverage and new classification structures

Changes to entry level award classifications

by Peter Maguire | Jan 12, 2025 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, Compliance, Fair Work, Human Resources, Modern Awards, Wage Obligations

Latest News & Events The Fair Work Commission has undertaken a review of entry level classifications in 45 modern awards and that is resulting in some key changes. What's changing? The Fair Work Commission has decided that, where entry level provisions in modern...

Free webinar on Voluntary Small Business Wage Compliance Code

by Peter Maguire | Dec 17, 2024 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, C3: Competency, Compliance, Fair Work, Human Resources, Modern Awards, Wage Obligations

Latest News & Events We're kicking off our free webinars on "Navigating Fair Work, Modern Awards, Positive Duties and all that people stuff" in 2025 with a timely one on the new Voluntary Small Business Wage Compliance Code designed to help you ensure that you...

Voluntary Small Business Wage Compliance Code released

by Peter Maguire | Dec 17, 2024 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, Compliance, Fair Work, Modern Awards, Wage Obligations

Latest News & Events Wage theft becomes a criminal offence from 1 January 2025 but small businesses will have some protections if they comply with the Voluntary Small Business Compliance Code which has just been published by the Fair Work Ombudsman. What's...

Industry Specific Redundancy Schemes 2

by Liam Maguire | Dec 7, 2024 | C2: Capability, C3: Competency, Fair Work, Modern Awards, Wage Obligations

In the first of our blogs on industry specific redancy schemes, we explored ones that have a different definition of a redundancy. In this one, we look at ones which have higher levels of redundancy pay than the NES provides for or which have specific redundancy provisions for small business employers. dudancy schemes, we explored ones that have a different definition of a redundancy. In this one, we look at ones which have higher levels of redundancy pay than the NES provides for or which have specific redundancy provisions for small business employers.

Wage theft becomes a criminal offence

by Peter Maguire | Dec 3, 2024 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, Compliance, Fair Work, Modern Awards, Wage Obligations

Latest News & Events The next element of the Albanese Government's Closing Loopholes changes to the Fair Work Act substantially up the penalties for underpayment of wages and entitlements with a new criminal offence of wage theft. What's changing? From 1 January...

Industry Specific Redundancy Schemes 1

by Peter Maguire | Oct 23, 2024 | C1: Commitment, C2: Capability, Compliance, Fair Work, Modern Awards, Wage Obligations

In this blog we discuss Industry Specific Redundancy Schemes, how they differ from the standard redundancy rules as we know them and why it’s important for employers to understand how it impacts an employees entitlement to redundancy payments.