Despite legislative reforms, discrimination based on age, religion, race, ethnicity, gender and disability remains prevalent in modern working environments. Recent statistics confirm disappointing trends in this regard: full-time average weekly earnings of women are 16.2% less than their male counterparts the gender pay gap in ASX 200 organisations is 28.7% 25% of Australians aged […]
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Although traffic offences are common and affect a larger cross section of the population, they are still viewed as serious by NSW courts. Magistrates have taken an increasingly hard-line approach to sentencing traffic offenders in recent years, resulting in large fines, lengthy licence suspensions, cancellation and even periods of imprisonment. Notwithstanding this, many road […]
It is an uncomfortable thing to contemplate one’s death, and many of us assume it’s a long way off. For this reason many neglect estate planning and put it on the back burner for later in life.
You may think the answer to this question should be unmistakable. However many employees fail to recognise when they are being victimised by their colleagues or superiors via email communications.
In Australia a minimum or “award” wage covers all employees, to ensure that everyone is paid fairly for their work. An employer cannot contract out of paying you the award wage (as a minimum), or any statutory entitlements such as breaks, overtime, leave and redundancy. Many employees are unaware that they are being paid below […]
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