The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has now formally commenced, with the final Letters Patent and Terms of Reference released.
The threshold applies to an employee’s annual rate of earnings and includes wages, any amounts applied or dealt with on the employee’s behalf and the agreed value of any non-monetary fringe benefits such as a motor vehicle.Overtime
The decision means employers with a lesser share of common law liability will pay a greater proportion of a Plaintiff’s loss through unrecoverable WC payments.
The Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) is a multi-faceted piece of legislation, and one of the things many businesses do not realise is that it is based on priority. That is, priority between two competing security interests.
A recent decision by the Supreme Court of Western Australia determined that financial information maintained by companies, in electronic form, may be admitted into evidence as ‘books’ of those companies.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the various Australian State and Territory economies have faced unprecedented disruption, uncertainty and periods of lockdown.
Whilst it is standard practice for Aged Care Providers (Providers) to collect information about their residents in order to provide them with care, Providers should be mindful of t
