E Alert: Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017 now in effect in Queensland

Legislation now effective As indicated in our e-Alert in September 2017, at that time Queensland had become the first State to establish a licensing scheme [...]

E-alert: Paying the price for employee mistakes – the importance of properly defining employee roles and acceptable behaviours

The importance for employers of properly defining employees’ roles and acceptable behaviours cannot be understated. Not only does it make it much easier for employers [...]

E-alert: Labour Hire Licensing Act (Qld) 2017 – Single employer entity groups beware?

On 8 September 2017, the first scheme to license the labour hire industry in Australia passed through Queensland’s parliament. The scope of the LHL Act [...]

E-alert: Changes to important employment related financial thresholds 2017

Many important employment related monetary thresholds are indexed annually on 1 July. Below is a checklist of some of those changes effective 1 July 2017: [...]