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Compassionate leave is a separate entitlement. It doesn’t come out of your sick and carer’s leave balance.

All employees (including casuals) can take 2 days of compassionate leave (also known as bereavement leave) each time they meet the criteria.

You can take this leave if 👇
- a member of your immediate family or household dies, or contracts or develops a life-threatening illness or injury
- a baby in your immediate family or household is stillborn
- you have a miscarriage, or
- your current spouse or de facto partner has a miscarriage.

Full-time and part-time employees get paid leave 💵
Casual employees get unpaid leave ❌

Some workplace issues just don’t fall within our remit, for example, tax, workplace health and safety, or providing legal advice (our advisers aren’t lawyers!).

What we can help with is set by the Fair Work Act legislation, which provides a safety net of minimum workplace entitlements.

You should be given the choice to work on a public holiday or not.

If you’re asked to work, the request must be reasonable. If you say no to a request, your refusal also needs to be reasonable.

We’ve got more info about not working on public holidays, including the factors your employer should consider before rostering you on and what you need to be paid: https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/public-holidays/not-working-on-public-holidays

A new casual employee definition and pathway to permanent employment now applies to all casuals employed from 26 August 2024. Under the new definition, a casual employee is someone who:

- starts employment and has no firm advance commitment to ongoing work, and
- is entitled to a casual loading or specific pay rate under an award, enterprise agreement or employment contract.

The employee choice pathway to permanent employment allows eligible casuals to notify their employer in writing of their intention to change to permanent employment.

We’ve updated the Casual Employment Information Statement with the new changes. Download a copy and find out more about the changes: https://www.fairwork.gov.au/about-us/workplace-laws/legislation-changes/closing-loopholes/casual-employment-changes

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/27/australias-inflation-rate-comes-in-lower-than-expectations-in-february-at-34

Australia’s inflation rate comes in lower than expectations in February at 3.4% ABS data shows consumer price index is stabilising, which will feed into the RBA’s next interest rate decision in May

If you use heavy vehicles or other machinery, stop, pump and go...

🛑 Stop – using the old rates for fuel acquired from 5 February.
⛽ Pump – your fuel and make sure you keep records.
🚚 Go – to the new rates page to calculate your claim correctly.

Visit www.ato.gov.au/fueltaxcreditrates

Dear Clients, we will be closed from Friday, December 22 until Monday, January 29, 2024. We wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.