Unions will be out in force checking cafe owners are paying the correct public holiday penalty rate of double time and a quarter to young workers this Easter long weekend.
All four days...
Hopes are high for a bumper Easter trading period, so now is the time to check in with public holiday requirements to ensure sites and trucks are staffed, but as always managing...
The Queensland Government’s idea to make Christmas Eve a partial public holiday has been labelled as “just a pre-election stunt” by the Executive Director of Australian Retailers Association, Russell Zimmerman.
Political self-interest
The ARA...
Employsure Senior Employment Relations Adviser Jonathan Wilson offers some pointers for small businesses as Australia Day approaches.
Mr Wilson says the biggest issue they face on public holidays is “balancing competing priorities”. He...
The Australian Retailers Association, National Retail Association and the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman strongly support this week’s Federal Court verdict in upholding the Fair Work Commission’s penalty-rates decision to...
The Fair Work Commission has reduced Sunday Penalty Rates from double time to time-and-a-half.
The Australian Retailers Association (ARA), the Master Grocers Association (MGA), the Franchise Council of Australia (FCA) and national retailers...
The Northern Territory Government will seek to introduce half-day public holidays from 7pm to midnight on the evening before Christmas and the evening before New Year’s Day.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner says the...
Weekend penalty rates could be replaced by a ‘loaded’ hourly rate that would be negotiated between the worker and their employer.
In an address to the Australian Financial Review Retail Summit this week,...
