How to make sure your business is prepared for the new Fair Work Act.
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As if modern awards weren’t confusing enough, the phasing in of transitional award provisions is due to begin soon… on 1 July 2010 to be precise!
What are transitional award provisions?
Transitional provisions are included in most modern awards and essentially allow you to “phase-in” increases in wages, loadings and penalties over a period of 5 years.
Transitional provisions in modern awards mean that you do not have to start increasing base rates of pay to match modern award rates until 1 July 2010.
But how does this really work?
In reality, it is very complicated, especially because there will be a minimum wage increase across all awards on 1 July 2010.
Let me try and explain using an example:
Dear Reader,
If one of your employees failed to rock up to work for more than 3 days – and didn’t contact you at all – would you know what to do?
If an employee is absent for a continuous period of more than 3 days without notifying you, you may be able to assume that they have in fact abandoned their employment.
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