by Quinns Blog | Dec 16, 2020 | Accounting News, Newsletter Features
First JobKeeper, then JobSeeker, now comes JobMaker. The Government’s $74 billion JobMaker Plan is a key element of the Government’s Economic Recovery Plan for Australia, designed to support a stronger economic recovery and bring more Australians back to work....
by Quinns Blog | Dec 9, 2020 | Legal News, Mergers & Acquisitions News
In the Construction industry, ‘development consent’ is a term referring to the consent to build given by a state government. In this article, we will examine when a development consent may lapse, the changes posed by COVID-19 and other questions. The Impact of...
by Quinns Blog | Dec 9, 2020 | Employment and Human Resources News, Newsletter Features
What are the Minimum Entitlements to Compassionate Leave? An employee (including a casual employee) is entitled to two days of compassionate leave to spend time with a member of their immediate family or household who has sustained a life-threatening illness or...
by Quinns Blog | Dec 9, 2020 | Accounting News, Newsletter Features
For many small businesses, worker’s compensation audits are stressful and time-consuming often resulting in hefty penalties. We have all heard the horror stories of honest, hard-working, small business operators being forced into insolvency, unable to meet large...
by Quinns Blog | Dec 2, 2020 | Employment and Human Resources News, Newsletter Features
An employee has been granted a ruling for unfair dismissal by the Fair Work Commission despite threatening to kill his manager; emphasising the importance of seeking an employee’s version of events. The Commission unveiled that in February 2019, a Foamex Group...
by Quinns Blog | Dec 2, 2020 | Legal News, Newsletter Features
What if someone signed a will, pretending to be you? What if you made a will but did not have the legal capacity to do so? These are two important questions we will discuss in today’s article, following on from our previous articles on safeguarding your will from...
