Current News

20-22 August
Multiple sessions and locations

Are you crystal clear on your legal responsibility as an employer or manager of people?

The ground is shifting. In the past year, a number of landmark court decisions have sent shockwaves through the industrial relations landscape. Business is grappling with uncertainty and the risk of getting it wrong.

Seminar topics include:

• The basics of compliance, with practical tips to protect your business.
• Casual employment conversion and preventing 'double dipping'.
• Superannuation and Annual Leave Loading.
• VIC Long Service Leave, parental leave and portable leave.
• Single Touch Payroll obligations for employers.
• Q&A opportunity to get answers around your specific concerns for your business.

Click here for registration and more information.

The ATO recently hosted a webcast to assist with your transition to STP, which covered:

• what to do if you already use payroll software
• what to do if you don’t use payroll software
• simple, low cost solutions for micro employers (1–4 employees)
• quarterly reporting concession for micro employers (1–4 employees)
• requesting more time to get ready.

Click here to see the webcast

Australian grown cherries could soon be available earlier in spring.

The harvest usually starts in October/November in the eastern states, with the season in full swing by Christmas.

But new crops in Victoria’s Sunraysia, the New South Wales Riverina, and South Australia’s Riverland are set to bring the season forward.

Cherry Growers Australia President Tom Eastlake told Macquarie National News Rural Reporter Eddie Summerfield, it’s a credit to the growers in these non-traditional cherry regions. You can read more, or listen to the Macquarie National News Rural Podcast here.

• the objectives of the Labour Hire Authority
• what the labour hire licensing scheme means for your business
• key dates and obligations.

Please see link for Chill Hours by region. Click on the 'Instructions' tab for more information on how to find region that applies to you.

https://hort-science.shinyapps.io/ChillCalculator/

Want to save time, save money and create a more productive farm?

'Doing Business Better' is providing an invaluable short course for famers and stakeholders across the Yarra Valley region to learn tools and techniques to increase profits, reduce operational costs and increase business competitiveness.

The workshop would be ideal for owners, managers and leaders of farms.

The half-day workshop will teach you how to use process mapping to identify wasted efforts and uncover improvement opportunities across your farming processes. You will discover a new way to view your business and identify actions you can take to improve your farm practices.