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Employers often seek the right to randomly test employees in the workplace. Read more about workplace drug and alcohol testing here.

Businesses are legally obliged to manage the risk of falls and comply with specific safety requirements for people working at heights.

What is a toolbox meeting, and what are an employer’s obligations when it comes to hosting these meetings?

Are people required to wear a harness and fall restraint while working in a scissor lift? Learn more here about working safely at heights. 

If an employee applies for annual leave while receiving a “higher duties” allowance, should the allowance be counted in the leave payment? Learn more here about annual leave entitlements.

Running a bustling general store and café seven days a week doesn’t leave time for much else, so it’s remarkable that a 10-minute coffee break sparked thousands of dollars in savings for this business owner.

Whatever product you can think of, it’s likely that you can find it being manufactured in China. And these days, the internet provides a perfect tool to identify a long list of self-claimed Chinese manufacturers with decent websites. 

Stagekings was strong, and there was almost more work than they could handle. That is until COVID-19 hit. It all tumbled down with the announcement of a ban on public gatherings of over 500 people. They were told to down tools, pack up and go home. Almost all work for the next two years was cancelled.

Current systems for reporting and responding to sexual harassment are failing individuals and organisations, says the Champions of Change Coalition.

Every day Australian businesses are being targeted by cyber scams. According to Scamwatch, between January and March 2021, there have been 14,226 reports of phishing with a revenue loss of $659,517.
2,235 of these were email phishing scams.