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This time of year often marks the beginning of a new performance management cycle across many organisations and step one often involves setting goals with your employees for the upcoming year. Here’s how you can prepare for, and run, a successful goal-setting meeting.

Since COVID-19, there has been a significant increase in demand for employees to work remotely from Australia for foreign employers. Such a relocation is often solely for the convenience of the employee to fulfil a dream of working in Australia or to return home. If you have an employee wishing to work remotely from Australia, you will need to manage the taxation obligations to prevent the employee’s dream from becoming your nightmare.

Not-for-profit (NFP) entities or for-purpose organisations often have a mission to defend an environmentally or socially oriented cause. For example, an NFP founded to protect biodiversity puts environmental sustainability at the heart of its mission. Therefore, we often assume that NFPs are necessarily very well advanced in their sustainability journey.

From 1 July 2024, the Fair Work Commission is empowered to issue an exemption certificate to a permit holder (Union), allowing them to enter a workplace or business premises without prior notice if they are investigating a suspected contravention in certain circumstances.