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In the state budget for FY 2022/23 handed down this week, the NSW Government has announced the first steps towards reforming the stamp duty payable in respect of certain property transactions. Stamp duty reform has been flagged for some time, with a...
On 16 February 2021, New South Wales passed the Strata Schemes Management Amendment (Sustainability Infrastructure) Bill 2020 ("Sustainability Infrastructure Bill"). The Bill amended the Strata Schemes Management Act 201...
The NSW Court of Appeal in P & S Kauter Investments Pty Ltd v Arch Underwriting at Lloyds Ltd considered what information must be contained in a notification to insurers for it to constitute notification of facts giving rise to claim for the pur...
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has handed down the 2021 Annual Wage Review decision, granting a 2.5% increase to the national minimum wage and modern award minimum wages. The weekly national minimum wage (NMW) will ...
The high income threshold will increase to $153,600, effective from 1 July 2020. The Fair Work Commission has today released its annual increase to the high income threshold. This threshold affects how modern awards apply to employees and, i...
The Fair Work Commission's 2019/20 Annual Wage Review decision has now been handed down. A majority of the Expert Panel for annual wage reviews (Panel) noted that this review was undertaken during a global pandemic, with the...
The Australian Banking Association (ABA) has announced that its member banks have agreed to extend their small business relief measures to businesses with total business loan facilities of up to $10M (increased from the previous $3M threshold), inclu...
The introduction of the Fair Work Amendment (Casual Loading Offset) Regulations 2018 (Cth) will effectively alleviate the opportunity for employees, who have been incorrectly classified as ‘casuals’, from double-dipping on their entitlements...
As part of its four-yearly review of modern awards, a Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has handed down its provisional view1 that all modern awards should be varied to incorporate a ‘model term’ expanding the r...