by Keeli Cambourne | Nov 2, 2022 | News
She said the views of female small-business owners had been overlooked in the sometimes heated debate over the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill introduced to Parliament last Thursday (27 October). For most businesses, the focus of concern has been Labor’s intention to...
by Keeli Cambourne | Nov 2, 2022 | News
The results showed that employee households’ living costs rose 2.6 per cent compared to a 1.8 per cent increase for the consumer price index — the largest quarterly increase in employee households’ living costs since the September 2000 quarter following the...
by Keeli Cambourne | Nov 2, 2022 | News
Fair Work inspectors investigated 77 businesses across a range of suburbs, including Brisbane CBD, South Brisbane, Fortitude Valley and Sunnybank where they found 75 per cent of businesses had breached workplace laws. Businesses were selected for surprise inspections...
by Keeli Cambourne | Nov 1, 2022 | News
Among the mainland states, confidence increased in NSW and South Australia, while it was down in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. “Weekly inflation expectations” jumped 0.5ppt to 6.6 per cent, its highest weekly value in over a decade. The subindex results...
by Keeli Cambourne | Nov 1, 2022 | News
The changes that have been made to the competition and consumer law will see the introduction of penalties and other changes relating to unfair contract terms, as well as significant increases in maximum penalties for breaches of certain provisions of the Competition...
