An employee wants to work part-time. Help!
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Dear Aunty B, I am the director of an incorporated health care business and have a question regarding an employee's request to work part-time after having worked in a full-time capacity for the past four and a half years.  ...

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I want my employee in the office, not at home. Help!
Monday, 22 February 2010
Dear Aunty B, I run a small business and have just been approached by one of my staff asking to work from home two afternoons a week to look after her young children.  ...

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My employee is too old and risky. How do I move him on?
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Dear Aunty, We are a Victorian printing firm which employs 22 people.  ...

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The union is at the door. Do I have to meet them?
Monday, 04 January 2010
Dear Aunty B, I run a marketing services business that owns a call centre subsidiary. I recently received a call from someone in the union and they want to come and meet me. I have no idea what to do or what this is about. I have a sales background and am ...

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Enforced Christmas leave to grow
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
The roads are quiet. And many phones are switched to message bank as more companies have closed earlier this year to use up annual leave.  ...

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Can we employ commission only staff or is it illegal?
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Dear Aunty B
, Can we employ commission only staff in Australia? I rang Fair Work 
Australia about this only a month ago and was told that commission only
staff only exists within the Real Estate Industry (special provisions
that date back to the 70s).  ...

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Staff members & their soapboxes
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Pity the poor Melbourne mother on a Tiger Airways flight who was repeatedly asked by an attendant to hide her breastfeeding baby from other passengers on a flight earlier this month.  ...

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The union is at the door. Do I have to meet them?
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Dear Aunty B, I run a marketing services business that owns a call centre subsidiary. I recently received a call from someone in the union and they want to come and meet me. I have no idea what to do or what this is about. I have a sales background and am ...

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Go-away money on the rise
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
The new IR laws have been operating since July 1. But in the last week, I have had a number of employers asking me about how to let go staff that are underperforming for a variety of reasons. Yes, the employers have been reading SmartCompany, are across the ...

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A shonky web developer is ripping me off. Help!
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Hi Aunty B, Please help! In late March this year we commissioned a web design/development company to build our website as well as design our logo and stationery.  ...

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Our web developer has behaved totally unprofessionally. What are my legal rights?
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Dear Aunty B, We engaged a web designer to create a new website for our family business. All we needed in the first instance was emphasis on the branding, and minimal information to which we could later build on the content as we went. We specified that e-commerce ...

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