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In this conversation with CEO of Employee Matters, Natasha Hawker, we learn how she handles change and challenge and how she made a successful transition from a career in the corporate sector to running her own human resources consulting firm. Employee Matters helps businesses with ‘Hire to Fire and Everything in Between’ which aptly, is the name of her book. Natasha believes that your employees are your greatest asset and also potentially your greatest liability. With a successful career in Employee Relations for over 25 years working both nationally and internationally, Natasha is routinely featured in the SMH, ABC Radio and has been nominated for the Telstra Businesswoman of the Year and Employee Matters was a finalist for the My Business Awards.

This issue was identified during the Fair Work Commission’s 4 yearly Modern Award Review and at the end of October, the Commission issued its final determination to vary 96 Modern Awards to clarify casual employee entitlements to overtime loadings. In addition to casual loading – the cumulative approach i.e. (base rate of pay) x (overtime penalty rate + casual loading); or • in addition to the employee’s minimum hourly rate plus casual loading i.e. (base rate of pay + casual loading) x (overtime penalty rate) The terms of each Modern Award vary, however the entitlement to overtime loading typically arises either when the employee works more than 38 hours per week, more than a certain number of hours a day, or the work is performed outside the prescribed span of hours in the applicable Modern Award.

makeThe impact of coronavirus on employment is expected to continue — and intensify — as cuts to the Federal Government’s JobKeeper scheme begin to be felt. Hundreds of thousands of Australians have lost their jobs during the pandemicExperts have recommended a series of basic steps to anyone who finds themselvesConversations with your boss, bank and landlord could be helpful going forwardHundreds of thousands of Australian workers have already lost their jobs in the past few months, and the nation’s unemployment rate climbed to a two-decade high in July. While JobKeeper has been credited with helping keep unemployment beneath double digits, reductions to the wage subsidy came into effect on Monday.“JobKeeper has provided a lifeline to millions of Australians and tens of thousands of businesses,” said Professor John Spoehr, the director of Flinders University’s Australian Industrial Transformation Institute.“Any winding down of that will lead to a number of companies making a decision to let their workers go.”Sydney-based employment expert Natasha Hawker is predicting a wave of retrenchments as a result. I believe it is going to be a bloodbath out there,” she said.

The coronavirus crisis has devastated countless livelihoods – but there’s a new threat facing businesses and everyday workers alike that most of us haven’t seen coming. That’s according to Aussie employment relations expert Natasha Hawker, who told news.com.au JobKeeper 2.0, which is now just days away, would leave employees and staff exposed to a redundancy “bloodbath”. The $1500-a-fortnight JobKeeper wage subsidy was first announced by the federal government back in April in a bid to keep businesses and households afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.