The Fair Work Commission recently made significant changes to the Miscellaneous Award 2020 (the Miscellaneous Award), which came into effect on 1 July 2020. It is important that all businesses review their current employment arrangements, to ensure that employees who were thought to be ‘non-award covered’ employees have not been caught in the wider net now cast [...]
The personal insolvency regulator, the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) has recently issued a warning around dodgy insolvency providers. It is anticipated that there will be a wave of business failures when the temporary insolvency relief measures come to an end at the end of this year. It is therefore a major concern of AFSA [...]
Australian businesses have no-doubt benefited from the convenience afforded by temporary changes to the Corporations Act allowing virtual meetings and e-signing of documents during the pandemic. Unfortunately, these temporary measures are set to expire in March 2021 (unless they are extended). A recent submission to Treasury by the Governance Institute of Australian (GIA) has argued that [...]
