Each year many people make claims against the estate of a loved one. There can be many reasons why this can happen. Not everyone can make a claim against a deceased person's estate. The law states that only some people can make...
Recent reforms to the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act) offer greater certainty about the rights and obligations that govern casual employment. On 26 March 2021, the FW Act was amended to introduce: A new definition of casual em...
The National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Supporting Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 has been read a first and second time in the House of Representatives and has now been referred to the Senate Economics Legislation Committ...
Temporary measures which relieved company directors from personal liability for insolvent trading, enacted by the Federal Government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ceased on 31 December 2020. Accordingly, from 1 January 2...
The Government announced in September last year its intention to require providers of debt management companies to hold an Australian Credit Licence in order to carry on their businesses. Treasury has just finished consulting o...
On 10 December 2020 Parliament passed the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Bill 2020, which included, amongst other changes, the establishment an industry-wide deferred sales model (DSM) for add-on insur...