Do you feel as if your team don’t show initiative? Do you walk in late to meetings only to find that the team didn’t want to get started without you? When you ask for opinions is there deafening silence? If you answered yes to some of these questions, it’s time to think about your behaviours [...]

It’s expensive to employ people. There’s the base wage, then superannuation, then payroll tax, workers compensation premiums, annual leave loading, penalty rates – and that’s just the start! Let’s take a look at the indirect costs. First there are the hiring costs which includes the managers time given to investing in screening and interviewing candidates. [...]

Lots of people have an opinion on using ABN’s as a labourer. There seems to be two questions really. One is “is it actually legal to be paid via ABN when your are working as a labourer?”.  Two is, “do I make more money being paid as an ABN holder?” The answer to the first [...]

We are especially impressed with WorkSafe South Australia’s website. It offers some entertaining, practical and useful tools to help people stay safe whilst at work. As we have construction labourers, office temps, traffic management and carpentry services we are always looking for creative ways to keep safety top of mind for our employees. The solutions [...]

We believe that many companies spend oodles of money and time trying to make sure they implement all the required safety procedures to protect their employees and ensure they operate legally. The increasing demands on employers and employees to provide evidence of operating in a safe way results in a lot of paperwork, papertrails, endless [...]

With the Australian economy shaky from international economic problems and the local will-we-won’t-we Carbon Tax Plans, consumers remain watchful, continuing to save more and spend less. The construction industry outlook is, quite frankly, uncertain as everyone waits for someone else to move. Keep the bigger picture in mind – the construction industry is still Australia’s 3rd largest [...]

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