Welcome to our monthly Workplace Relations Update for Executives On-The-Go.
In this update we cover:
* Sham Contracting…again (BUT, this time it’s personal)
* Another bank under fire – lessons in managing the employee life cycle from recruitment to exit
* Short Content Survey … More February Workplace Relations Update for Executives On-The-Go.
With the Christmas decorations now packed away for another year and the New Year’s resolutions already being broken, we find ourselves facing a new working year and, with it, a raft of legal and regulatory changes and emerging trends in behavior and practice that affect our workplace.
In this blog we cover:
* Paid Parental Leave
* A New Definition of Small Business For the Purpose of Unfair Dismissal
* New Workplace Safety Laws
* Sham Contracting
* Sexual Harassment … More WORKPLACE RELATIONS UPDATE FOR EXECUTIVES ON-THE-GO.
In late 2009 CompliSpace completed an in depth Human Resources Risk Assessment Survey, the initial results of which were published in December in our report Fair Work – The Road Ahead. Since this time over 600 organisations have completed the survey, and the University of Technology Sydney is preparing to release a research paper based on the findings.
CompliSpace would like to invite you to take part in our follow up study Fair Work Act – Down the Road. This new survey is designed to ascertain how well Australian organisations have adapted to the Fair Work system and to assist individual organisations measure the overall effectiveness of their human resources programs. More>> … More Fair Work Act – Human Resources Risk Survey
This month the Australian Corporate Governance Wrap tackles:
– ASIC Gears Up For a Big Year Ahead
– GFC Fallout Continues
– Class Action Action
– Fair Work Act Still A Mystery To Many
– Bullying Claims on the Rise
– Landmark OHS Ruling Provides Relief for Directors
– Fraud on the Rise
… More Australian Corporate Governance Wrap February 2010
In 2010 CompliSpace will be publishing a series of comprehensive monthly governance wraps starting with this one which covers December/January. For those readers who would like more frequent updates we invite you to follow CompliSpace on Twitter where you will find key media and regulatory feeds and posts on governance items of interest during the day.
So what happened in the governance space whilst most Australians were enjoying the festive season? In this bigger than usual blog we cover:
* ASIC – The Losses, the Reaction and the Resolve
* Confusion Reigns as Modern Awards and Employment Standards Commence
* ATO Urges Crack Down on Sham Contractor Arrangements
* ASX Company Directors Behaving Badly
* ASX Executive Remuneration – Two Strike Rule Softened
* Federal Government silent on AML/CTF Tranche 2 Rollout … More Governance Wrap – Summer Edition December 2009 – January 2010
What are the National Employment Standards (NES)? The Fair Work Act provides for a two-part safety net protecting minimum wages and conditions. The NES provide 10 minimum entitlements that cannot be modified to an employee’s detriment by a contract, award or workplace agreement. The Modern Awards provide additional minimum entitlements (such as minimum wages, overtime … More Step-by-Step Guide for Complying with the National Employment Standards
Workplace Relations – No News is Not Good News With the Modern Awards and National Employment Standards commencing on 1 January 2010, probably the biggest news in the governance space has been the almost complete lack of media coverage, or government advertising, with respect to a change of law that will impact millions of Australian … More Governance Wrap 13 December 2009
Regulator Follow Up Action Predictably, this week, ASIC was ordered to pick up the tab for Rich and Silbermann. Not so predictably ASIC got another kick in the teeth with a Victorian Supreme Court Judge delivering a broadside as to the regulator’s handling of its case against former AWB executive Andrew Lindberg. Not surprisingly numerous … More Governance Wrap 29 November 2009
Second Round of Fair Work Act Changes Commence In Six Weeks With 6 weeks to go to the start of the Modern Awards, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard ordered a rewrite of the airline staff award, following union claims that under the new award ground staff face pay cuts of up to … More Governance Wrap 15 November 2009
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