by admin | Feb 28, 2022 | Covid-19, General HR
Welcome back to all our readers and best wishes for 2022! Now is a perfect time to reflect on the goals that your business would like to achieve in the coming year and how best to align your staffing needs, employment practices, and HR functions with those goals....
by Lisa Aguilar | Dec 7, 2021 | Covid-19
The Supreme Court of New South Wales has upheld a number of public health orders that require employees of particular industries to be vaccinated against COVID-19, dismissing challenges made by a number of health, aged care, education and construction workers in the...
by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | Covid-19
In January of this year, we examined whether employers could force employees to be COVID-19 vaccinated when the vaccine became available. At that time, whilst still isolated from the rest of the world, there were relatively few cases of COVID and those cases were...
by admin | Jul 25, 2021 | Covid-19
From Sunday 18 July 2021, most workplaces in Greater Sydney including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong, and Shellharbour were declared closed to the public. This lockdown has now expanded to parts of regional NSW, Melbourne, Adelaide. This means that many...
by admin | Jul 14, 2021 | Covid-19
At 11am on 7 July 2021, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced that the lockdown for Greater Sydney and surrounding factions will extend at least until Friday, 16 July 2021. This represents a three-week lockdown hereby affected residents must stay at home causing...
by Shana Joffe | Feb 2, 2021 | Covid-19
As the Federal Government has recently announced, the COVID-19 vaccination rollout will commence in mid to late February, a full month ahead of the previously foreshadowed commencement schedule at the end of March 2021. As business and industry of all sizes has...