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“What’s in a Day? Major changes to sick leave entitlements”
Major changes to sick leave entitlements The Federal Court handed down a landmark decision in August 2019 which will have major impacts on employee’s paid personal/carer’s (sick) leave entitlements. What is paid personal/carer’s (sick) leave? The National Employment...
Why Succession Planning is important for your company
A succession plan is a critical but often overlooked process for companies. In short, a succession plan is a strategy for identifying and developing future leaders at your company, across all levels, and are used to address the inevitable changes that can occur. It...
Christmas Eve – Pay Rate Impacts of this Part-Day Public Holiday
The Queensland Government has implemented a part-day public holiday from 6pm to midnight on Christmas Eve since 2019. Queensland is the third Australian jurisdiction to implement a Christmas Eve part day public holiday, following similar moves by...
Buying & Selling at Christmas
It’s that time of year again, the holiday season is upon us! It’s very common for clients to buy and sell property in the time coming up to Christmas. What does this mean for contract conditions and settlement dates over the break, as most solicitor's offices are shut...
Elder abuse is on the rise!
Recently Scott Lorback and I presented seminars in the Sunshine Coast libraries to inform the public about issues relating to their wills and estates, powers of attorney documents and also to make the community aware of the prevalence and rise of elder abuse in our...
No more Paper Titles
Although conveyancing in Queensland has been able to slowly filter out the number of paper titles in circulation over the years, up until October 1st there were still plenty of long-lost paper titles burdening the conveyancing process for Sellers and Buyers alike....
Trustee Duties – be sure you are performing all of them?
Fiduciary obligations of a trustee have been considered and addressed by the courts (over many centuries) and more recently within legislation also. They confirm how a trustee should act when administrating a trust. An often little considered (and easily overlooked)...
Can an employee on sick leave be terminated?
The short answer; yes, but in very limited circumstances. The law attempts to strike a balance between appropriate protections for employees being dismissed when they are temporarily unable to work and for employers to have the ability to dismiss an employee who can...
I want advice but I just can’t afford the fees?
Often in matrimonial cases there is a difference (sometimes a gulf) between the financial circumstances of one party compared to the other. One party might have accrued assets and income while the other party focused on the home and the children. This all works well...
Low and middle income tax offset changes now law – But will you get the $$
You will be entitled to some of the low and middle income tax offset if your individual taxable income is less than $126,000. Low and Middle Income Tax Offset (LMITO) income thresholds These LMITO thresholds apply for the 2018/2019, 2019/2020,...
MADE Establishment back-pays workers $7.8 million
George Calombaris’s restaurant group, MADE Establishment Pty Ltd, has back-paid workers $7.8 million in wages and superannuation after entering into a Court-Enforceable Undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO). The MADE Establishment was investigated by the...
From trainee to Business Manager
Every week in high school we used to get a day off to “study”. For a lot of my fellow classmates this meant going to the beach and hanging out. But I wanted to do something useful on my days off so when my teachers encouraged me to partake in a traineeship to further...
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