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10.02.2022 So excited that we have been nominated as a finalist in the Nudgee Small Business Awards! Please jump on and vote for us!

27.01.2022 If you or your friends are in or have a small business, come along to my free HR Masterclass for small to medium business at the Brisbane Business Hub on 27 July! See here: https://businessinbrisbane.com.au//how-to-avoid-hr-nightm/

25.01.2022 Love getting home to a little pressie from another satisfied client after a long week! It makes it all worthwhile. Thank you Lauren! It’s a pleasure doing business with you guys any time!

23.01.2022 Queensland University of Technology (QUT) staff will this vote on pay-rise freezes, moratoriums on forced redundancies and temporarily halting the payment and accrual of leave loading, as the institution proposes a raft of changes to employee’s enterprise agreements in a cost-saving move. The university’s Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Margaret Sheil today outlined the proposed changes as part of the university’s response to the economic blow the coronavirus pandemic... had caused. Professor Margaret Sheil, new vice-chancellor at the Queensland University of Technology, announced the proposed changes today. It follows negotiations with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the Together Union to propose a variation to the current Enterprise Agreements. Professor Sheil said the negotiations had been productive and were aimed at preserving as many jobs as possible. The proposal also includes changes to leave provisions, including COVID-19 leave, and the use of leave for Christmas shutdowns this year and in 2021, commitments for retraining, and maintenance of superannuation contributions. Staff will be able to vote on the proposed changes this month before the next stage of cost-saving measures, the realignment of faculties and schools begins. The university has already halted the majority of its building programs and consolidated administrative divisions from six to three. All of our senior staff have reduced their hours to a nine-day fortnight for the next 12 months, a move for which I am very grateful and one that marks the commitment of the 150 strong leadership team to QUT’s future, Professor Sheil said. The university is also proposing to move from two institutes and six faculties to five faculties such as Business and Law; Creative Industries, Education and Society; Engineering; Health and Biomedical Innovation; and science and Environment. Professor Sheil today told students they would still receive the same qualifications and education. The third stage of changes will then involve continuing the university’s digital transformation to ensure the virtual campus has the same offerings as it’s two physical campuses. This will enable more flexible learning and give access to high quality QUT courses to a greater number of students throughout Queensland and more broadly throughout Australia, Professor Sheil said.

23.01.2022 Workers subsidising NDIS: Report A major union-commissioned study has found the NDIS workforce is "carrying the costs and risks" of disability service provision, performing high levels of unpaid work and unable to recoup significant out of pocket expenses. The UNSW survey of 2340 disability workers, commissioned by the ASU, HSU and UWU, also reveals broad instability in paid hours of work, a lack of job security and dissatisfaction with pay structures....Continue reading

20.01.2022 Awsome service. helped me with some tricky paperwork

19.01.2022 University slugged $614K for managing-out "difficult" employee Thursday, May 07, 2020, 12:18pm A court has ordered a leading university to pay more than $600,000 in compensation and penalties to an accountant managed-out after her supervisor described her as "poisonous to the team environment"....Continue reading

14.01.2022 Judge decides that details of sacked Ferrari chief's claim a matter of "open justice"... A judge has cited the "foundational principle of open justice" in explaining why he refused to grant Ferrari Australasia's former chief executive a confidentiality order to suppress details of his discontinued general protections claim. Federal Court Justice John Snaden yesterday declined the ex-chief's interlocutory application, but ordered the court's registry to keep the originating ap...Continue reading

13.01.2022 Sacked for refusing to lie... A lawyer suing one of Australia's richest property developers alleges he was sacked because he would not lie in an affidavit. Meriton Property Services' former general counsel Joseph Callaghan is suing the company and managing director Harry Triguboff for allegedly dismissing him for refusing to exaggerate the length of time it took to approve a development....Continue reading

10.01.2022 Notice to the Health Industry: Health Awards: - Unpaid pandemic leave and annual leave at half pay extended The Fair Work Commission has extended the entitlement to unpaid pandemic leave and annual leave at half pay in 9 awards in the health sector.... Schedule X (which provides the entitlements) will continue to apply in these awards until a further order is issued by the Fair Work Commission.

10.01.2022 The Morrison Government has this morning introduced legislation to permit all parents to take up to 30 days of flexible unpaid parental leave until their child turns two and ensure 12 months of unpaid parental leave is available for families dealing with stillbirths, infant deaths and premature births. IR Minister Christian Porter told Parliament the Fair Work Amendment (Improving Unpaid Parental Leave for Parents of Stillborn Babies and Other Measures) Bill 2020 "could mean,... for example, a new parent spending a block of unpaid parental leave with their newborn after birth and then taking 30 days flexibly after they return to work". "Employees will be able to take these days as a single day, groups of days or a single continuous block." Porter told Parliament that the Bill improves support for employees who experience stillbirth or the death of a child in the first 24 months of life. "Under the current Fair Work Act, parents on birth-related unpaid parental leave who experience a stillbirth or the death of their child in the first 24 months of life can be recalled to work from their leave with just six weeks’ notice from their employer," Porter said in his second reading speech. "Parents on adoption-related unpaid parental leave whose child dies in the first 24 months of life can be recalled to work from their leave with just four weeks’ notice. "If these parents are not already on unpaid parental leave, the Fair Work Act allows an employer to cancel their upcoming leave in these circumstances. "While recognising most employers are supportive of their employees, particularly where they have suffered such a tragic loss, the Bill will ensure that the entitlement to unpaid parental leave for a parent whose baby is stillborn will be as it would have been if their baby had lived. " He said that for parents whose child dies during the first 24 months of life, the Bill "will ensure that their employer will no longer be able to cancel any upcoming unpaid parental leave they might have, or, if they are already on leave, require them to return to work earlier than they may wish to". Porter continued that under the changes, parents with babies that are hospitalised post-birth "will also have greater flexibility in deciding how they can use their unpaid parental leave".

09.01.2022 60% increase in Unfair Dismissal Claims since the beginning of COVID-19. By Edie-Louise Diemar 8 May, 2020...Continue reading

09.01.2022 Employers that engage in deliberate wage theft face jail terms of up to a decade and 14 years when fraud is involved after the passage of legislation in Queensland's Parliament today, while employees under federal and state laws will have access to what the Palaszczuk Government promises will be a "simple, quick and low-cost" recovery process for underpayments. IR Minister Grace Grace said in her second reading speech in July that the legislation's amendments to the criminal ...code "reflect the seriousness of wage theft and signal Parliament’s intention to provide a deterrent to those employers who deliberately underpay and take advantage of their workers". She continued that the legislation would also provide an "accessible small claims process for wage recovery matters for all Queensland workers". She said the report of the inquiry into the legislation "found that wage theft is endemic across Queensland, affecting 437,000 workers and costing them approximately $1.22 billion in wages and $1.12 billion in unpaid superannuation each year". The report also "highlighted the bleak situation facing underpaid workers who must attempt to navigate the legal system to recover their wages, with approximately half of affected workers opting not to even pursue a claim". In the wake of the Bill's passage, the Queensland Council of Unions this afternoon renewed its call for "detailed public guidelines" that set out the criteria for police to investigate an alleged wage theft offence. It also wants a clear picture of the "gateway" or public interest test for a wage theft prosecution. The guidelines would also set out how the police might deal with wage theft complaints and the types of matters considered to be wage theft. QCU deputy secretary secretary Jacqueline King said the Queensland wage theft legislation differs from that of Victoria in that the southern state has an industrial inspectorate to investigate matters, whereas the sunshine state will be relying on police to investigate and for police prosecutors to launch prosecutions. She expects the Queensland Police Service would draft such guidelines with assistance from the State's Office of IR. King returned to the peak body as its deputy secretary in February this year, some 21 years after her last role as an industrial officer at the organisation. Meanwhile, Victoria's wage theft legislation takes effect in the middle of next year.

07.01.2022 Does your desk in your business make you feel like this ? Not sure where to start to meet your bookkeeping and taxation obligations? Why not send us a message and we can help you with a starting point. ... Start your Monday strong with the team at Patcor HR and Business Solutions #Patcor #Tax #bookkeeping #HR

07.01.2022 The Fair Work Commission has announced a 1.75% increase to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) following its 2020 Annual Wage Review. The increase applies to awards in 3 stages, which start from the first full pay period on or after: 1 July 2020... 1 November 2020 1 February 2021. If you’re not sure which award applies, give us a call! For anyone not covered by an award or an enterprise agreement, the new national minimum wage will be $753.80 per week or $19.84 per hour. This applies from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2020.

02.01.2022 Does your desk look like this? Yikes! Does the thought of EOFY looming in 12 days terrify you? Aaaahhh!!! Let us put your mind at ease! Call Corey or book an appointment today here on our page and let us clean up your books.

01.01.2022 Meatworker boned over uncharacteristic Coke theft: FWC A meatworks boner sacked just shy of his tenth work anniversary for stealing a can of coke is in line for almost $30,000 in compensation plus accrued long service leave, after the FWC found the employer's response harsh. The Cannon Hill Services Pty Ltd (trading as Australian Country Choice) abattoir boner was one of two workers sacked after being separately captured on a security camera stealing coke from a vending machi...Continue reading

28.12.2021 From assisting one large corporate client to get a variation applied to a Modern Award in order to save 68 jobs in Victoria through to lodging an Unfair Dismissal claim for a little Aussie battler through a fraudulent redundancy, nothing is out of the question for us here at Patcor! See our Fair Work Submission here: https://wip.fwc.gov.au//va/2020/am202093-sub-ea-180920.pdf

12.12.2021 Love getting home to a little pressie from another satisfied client after a long week! It makes it all worthwhile. Thank you Lauren! It’s a pleasure doing business with you guys any time!