We are very proud to announce that Mazars – HR and IR Consulting have achieved a 100% voluntary vaccination rate. A big ‘thank you’ to everyone in the team doing their bit in the fight against COVID!

If Covid 19 had not already thrown up enough challenges for employers, there are more to come. The pandemic has resulted in some significant changes in the workplace both in terms of employee expectations and an employer’s ability to meet those expectations. In many cases the expectations are “unspoken” which makes responding to them impossible. Employers are not mind readers and therefore they need a mechanism to understand what their employees are thinking and what

In 2016, the Federal Circuit Court made a landmark decision which provided a casual employee of the labour hire firm Workpac, with paid leave entitlements. Until this decision it was always an accepted principal that the casual loading paid to casuals was in lieu of any entitlement to paid leave entitlements. Workpac, in 2018 sought a declaration from the Federal Court, that another one of its employees, who was employed under similar circumstances to the

As Queensland commences its first working day of a lockdown it is a good time to review your obligations as an employer. Although we all hope that lockdown will only last until Sunday 8 August, it is unfortunately possible the lockdown may be extended. We are receiving many enquiries from clients regarding the obligations on employers where their employees or their business is being affected by Covid-19.  It is fair to say that what is

Recently, the Federal Government announced that it would become mandatory for employees in residential aged care to be vaccinated for Covid 19 to be able to continue to work in those settings.  All workers in these settings must have had, at least their first dose of a vaccine by a date to be set in September 2021. This recent announcement has led to speculation that there may be a softening of the position on mandatory