Modern employment awards – are you a risky business?

Modern employment awards – are you a risky business?

Picture this:
You are a small business owner.
After getting through the first five years of trade, you are starting to see returns on the time, emotion and finances that you have invested into the business.
Then a document comes in the mail and your fortune turns on its head. You are faced with a claim by a former employee and you realise your business is faced with an unexpected liability worth thousands of dollars. All due to a clause nested in a Modern Award that you had simply overlooked or misunderstood.
Here’s how to avoid becoming that business.

If you saw it on an episode of Mad Men, don’t do it…

If you saw it on an episode of Mad Men, don’t do it…

Sexual harassment can cost a business dearly in terms of lost productivity, staff turnover, recruitment costs, legal fees and court awarded damages. Two recent court cases have shown us that courts are now prepared to make increasingly large awards to compensate victims of sexual harassment. Here we give you the tools to identify sexual harassment in the workplace, and provide the steps you need to take to prevent it.