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- Ensuring a Safe Work Experience
- Many organisations have work experience placements that allow students to get a feel for different workplaces --- enabling them to better make educated decisions on future occupations. What you may not be aware of, is that those host employers are required to provide the same occupational health and safety (OH&S)...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Facebook at Work: What are the Legal Risks?
- The legal risks associated with using social networking sites, like Facebook, at work are becoming a growing concern for many employers. With Australia having the fifth-largest number of Facebook users worldwide, the Web site is opening up a plethora of potential legal risks for companies who allow their employees to...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Pay Now, or Pay (Bigtime) Later
- Recent penalties handed down by the courts as a result of underpayment investigations by the Workplace Ombudsman should serve as serious warnings to employers to comply with employee Awards. A Sydney meat market was recently fined $93,600 by the Federal Magistrates Court for underpaying one of its employees approximately $9,400...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Is Your Business at Risk?
- When employees leave your business, there is a potential risk that they may take your key clients, confidential information and intellectual property with them. To prevent this occurring, restraints are used to prohibit or discourage employees from removing, copying, using or disclosing confidential information and from soliciting customers, suppliers and...
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Low Alcohol Tolerance
- A recent case serves as a warning to all employees to be aware of "zero tolerance" policies that apply at their place of work and ensure their conduct does not contravene those policies. In May 2007, Woolworths dismissed one of its store managers for drinking two beers during his lunch...
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Bully for You?
- Bullying may often be associated with school days, but there is no doubt it is also a significant problem in today's workplaces as well. The NSW WorkCover Authority defines bullying at work as "aggressive behaviour that intimidates, humiliates and/or undermines a person or group. It is repeated, less-favourable treatment of...
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Are Employers Liable for an Employee's Criminal Wrongdoing?
- Is the Department of Education liable if one of its teachers sexually assaults a student? Can a security provider be held liable for an unlawful assault by one of its security guards on a member of the public? These are scenarios that Courts have recently considered in relation to employer...
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- You're Injured ... and Fired!
- So you have suffered the pain and nuisance of a work-related injury, and now it looks like you're also about to lose your job! You may be asking yourself, can my employer really get away with this? A number of recent cases have looked at whether an employee can legally...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Are Employers Ready for More Change?
- With the "Kevin 07" victory behind us, the workplace relations landscape is set to change again in '08. It is expected that workplace relations in Australia will undergo a third round of changes since 2006. The current Labor government is seeking to restore the balance in the employment relationship...
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Sign this AWA!
- Right now, workplace relations laws in Australia allow employers and employees to make individual agreements known as Australian Workplace Agreements, or "AWAs". The law prohibits an employer from coercing or applying duress to an employee to enter into an AWA, and the government's Workplace Inspectors are cracking down on employers...
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Dealing with a Difficult Employee
- With the back-to-work blues now a distant memory, it's time to make way for a new year of success, profitability, and productivity at work. Employers may not however be able to achieve these goals if faced with employees that consistently arrive late, are unproductive, have a disruptive influence over other...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- A National OH&S System — Is It Out of the Question?
- Following the launch of the National Safety Week in October last year, Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) briefly returned to the forefront of the Workplace Relations agenda. Yet speculation remains as to why the issue was somewhat neglected by both political parties in the wake of the Industrial Relations reforms...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
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- MS-13 Gang Member Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison on Racketeering Charges
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A member of LaMara Salvatrucha (MS-13) has been sentenced to 27 years in prisonfor his participation in a racketeering enterprise, AssistantAttorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S.Attorney...
- Articles 2008-03-31
- Three Defendants Plead Guilty in 'Advance-Fee' Fraud Scheme
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-514-2007 Fraud Victims Lose More Than $1.2 Million WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three defendantspleaded guilty to federal charges of running an advance-fee schemethat targeted U.S. victims with promises of millions of dollars,including money from an estate...
- Articles 2008-01-30
- MS-13 Member Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Involvement in a Racketeering Conspiracy
- To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2008, TDD: +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A member of LaMara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, has been sentenced to 20 years in prisonfor his participation in a racketeering enterprise, AssistantAttorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S.Attorney Edward...
- Articles 2007-12-10
- Sports in Brief | Florida St. picks coach to one day succeed Bowden
- The terms of Bobby Bowden's new contract will be revealed, Florida State officials said yesterday after a report surfaced that offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher will take over when the 78-year-old football coach retires. Bowden's agreement, however, would allow him to coach for as long as he wants, according to his...
- Articles 2007-12-06
- MS-13 Member Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Involvement in a Racketeering Conspiracy
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-514-2008 WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A member of La MaraSalvatrucha, or MS-13, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison forhis participation in a racketeering enterprise, Assistant AttorneyGeneral Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and...
- Articles 2007-12-04
- MS-13 Member Sentenced to More Than 19 Years in Prison for Involvement in a Racketeering Conspiracy
- To: STATE EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-514-2007, TDD: +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A member of LaMara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, has been sentenced to 235 months inprison for his participation in a racketeering enterprise, AssistantAttorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal...
- Articles 2007-11-20
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- Verle Lee Ackley Services, 2 p.m. Monday, Liberty Plains Baptist Church, Simla. Swan Law Funeral Directors. Angela Bertagni Visitation, 5 to 7 p.m. Monday and 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Swan Law Funeral Directors. Services, 11 a.m. Wednesday,...
- Articles 2007-11-11
- Two Men Sentenced for Running International Pornographic Spamming Business
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2088, TDD: +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two men have beensentenced to more than five years in prison for organizing andrunning an international pornographic spamming business that grossedover $1 million, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of theCriminal Division and...
- Articles 2007-10-12
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