by ABILITY GROUP | Jul 6, 2018 | Human Resources
Incorrectly classifying an employee as a contractor can be costly. Businesses can be fined up to $54,000 for sham contracting. It is easy to ensure you avoid such fines with advice from our human resources (HR) specialists. Employee or Contractor – Sham...
by ABILITY GROUP | Jun 25, 2018 | Human Resources
The Fair Work Act 2009 requires national minimum wage & minimum award rates be reviewed each financial year. The Fair Work Commission recently issued the 2017/18 annual wage review which will see increase by 3.5% from 1 July 2018. Wage Increase from July 2018...
by ABILITY GROUP | Jun 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
icare recently communicated NSW workers compensation premium formula has been updated. An important change is the exclusion of fatality claims. icare Updated Premium Model The Late Payment Fee rose from 0.779% to 0.808% per month (compounded), the Mine Safety Levy...
by ABILITY GROUP | Jun 6, 2018 | Uncategorized, Work Health & Safety
Safe Work Australia has introduced a Licence Register to making it easier to do business to find important information. Following a WHS Regulation amendment, the NSW Government published a register of individuals who hold high risk & construction licenses Safe...
by ABILITY GROUP | Jun 1, 2018 | Health & Wellbeing
ABILITY GROUP’s team was proud to recently participate in Anytime Fitness’ 24 Hour Treadmill Challenge. Given we support people with mental health issues (both at work & in personal lives), all of us proudly #treadtogether in raising funds to help prevent suicide....
