Guide To Promoting Workplace Compliance In Your Franchise Network – The Fair Work Ombudsman

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If you are a Franchisor, you may be interested in the news that last Friday 14 June, 2018 the Fair Work Ombudsman released a “Guide to promoting workplace compliance in your franchise network”. The guide reflects the Protecting Vulnerable Workers Act 2017 that introduced provisions for Franchisors to be accountable in some circumstances if their Franchisees do not follow workplace law, (in many instances meaning HR obligations). HR Central has been working consistently with Franchisors to provide tailored HR processes
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On the 12th of December 2017, the Fair Work Commission announced that they will introducing certain changes to the overtime rates and shift entitlements for casual and part-time employees in some awards. These changes will apply from the 1st of January 2018 onwards and have been explained below. As a reminder a casual employee is an employee that:
  • has no guaranteed hours of work;
  • doesn’t receive paid sick or annual leave entitlements;
  • receives a casual loading (a higher h
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An HR Review can help mitigate the risk to your business!  

There has been a significant rise in employee claims since the Fair Work Act was introduced, back in 2009.  Many businesses, regardless of their size, have suffered the dire financial consequences of being pulled through the Fair Work ringer. This may have occurred as a result of underpayment of wages, unfair dismissal claims or adverse action claims, to name but a few.<

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Recently HR Central were approached to comment on recent findings around Fair Work.

Those key findings were:
  • Since 2009, the Fair Work Ombudsman has recovered more than $161 million in back pay.
  • In 2014-15, the ombudsman brought 34 successful lawsuits against companies for Fair Work violations.
  • Most of these lawsuits (88%) were for unpaid wages or record-keeping offences.
If you are not paying a member of your staff correctly, you can guarantee that
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FWC confirmed Annual Wage Review – Higher than expected

Each financial year the Fair Work Commission's Expert Panel conducts a complete review of the national minimum wage and modern awards.  This is in accordance with the Fair Work Act 2009. The 2015–16 Annual Wage Review directly affects over 1.86 million employees in Australia.  This decision is important as the annual wage review affects those who are reliant upon the minimum rates of pay. All measures of inflation and wages growth are at historical
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Unfair dismissal is when an employee is dismissed from their job in a harsh, unjust or unreasonable manner.

Before dismissing an employee for what you perceive as misconduct you first need to review your company culture and behaviours when deciding if someone has breached what you believe is standard. In a recent case, a sacked employee was awarded $296,650 in damages for being unfairly dismissed.  This employee was dismissed after arriving drunk at at a conference one morning.  He arrived late at the conferen
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