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With employment conditions and rates of pay constantly changing, it is important to keep up-to-date with your obligations and entitlements. We provide an overview of recent and topical issues relating to awards and wages to assist your workplace in complying with the relevant requirements.

  • Modern Awards and apprenticeships and traineeships

    In the haste to develop Modern Awards in such a tight timeframe, Business SA has discovered that several Modern Awards do not contain provisions for trainees – full time, part time or school based trainees or school based apprentices...

  • Part-time provisions in Modern Awards

    Part-time provisions in Modern Awards will, in most cases, be more restrictive than those in the current awards. The intention of such changes is to clearly differentiate part-time and casual employees. An employee is a part-time employee if...

  • Default superannuation funds in Modern Awards

    Most employees have a right to choose a superannuation fund to which the employer is required to make superannuation contributions. However, where employees fail to exercise their choice of a particular superannuation fund, employers commonly...

  • Employment contracts and the new award system

    It is essential that an employment contract does not offer terms and conditions that are less generous than the NES and a Modern Award (where the employee is covered by a Modern Award). An employment contract cannot be utilised to avoid...

  • Learn how your Modern Award works

    Awards are not made to be read from start to finish, so we can help make it easier to understand. With Business SA’s ‘Modern Award Advisory Service’ you can meet with a highly experienced Business Adviser, one-on-one....