How To Enforce Company Title Renovations Policies
Managing a company title building’s renovations to ensure they are safe and non-disruptive is essential to members’ enjoyment of the building. In addition, directors who do not take steps to ensure that work is carried out by appropriately qualified and licensed tradespeople with suitable insurance policies may risk breaching their duty to exercise due care […]
Protecting Your Confidential Information From Former Employees
You run a successful business. You pride yourself on keeping one step ahead of your competitors. This means that you keep a tight lid on your confidential information. What would you do if one of your senior employees left the business and started offering a very similar product or service? We have previously written about […]
Social Media Comments and Workplace Misconduct
In Starr v Department of Human Services [2016] FWC 1460, Vice President Hatcher provided some commentary on the circumstances in which employers are entitled to dismiss employees for conduct that they engage in outside of work hours. The facts Mr Starr was a Centrelink customer service officer who had been employed by the Department of Human […]
Should you incorporate your workplace policies into your employment contracts?
Whether or not you should incorporate your workplace policies into your employment contracts is a difficult question. This is something you need to think very carefully about, so you do not end up being sued by your employees for not following them.