Changing an employee’s terms and conditions of employment 

Generally speaking, in order to make changes to an individual employment agreement, both parties to the agreement (the employee and the employer) need to consent to any such changes. Therefore, if an employer wishes to change an aspect of an employee’s employment agreement, for example, their hours of work, they will need to get the employee’s agreement to do this.

This does not limit the employer’s right to manage the business as they best see fit. Therefore if the employer wished to change any part of the employee’s employment agreement, they must have a genuine reason and they must follow a fair and reasonable process. The legislation does not specifically prescribe a process that must be followed, but it may include (but are not limited to) these types of things:

• Having meetings with the employee. It may also be advisable to give the employee an opportunity to prepare for this meeting as well as have a support person present;
• Giving the employee an opportunity to put their concerns/thoughts forward which the employer should take into consideration;
• Providing the employee with reasonable notice/warning of when this change is going to take place.

If the employer implements changes without consultation, without following a fair process or without genuine reasons to make a change, then this may be open to be challenged by the employee.

Increase in paid parental leave Entitlement Rate

The paid parental leave (PPL) weekly maximum entitlement rate has increased to $475.16 a week (before tax), from $458.82, as of 1 July 2012. This rate applies to employee and self-employed PPL recipients who are entitled to receive the maximum PPL rate.

Creating an Order based on a Past Invoice in ABM

New orders can be created by selecting a previously created invoice.  In a sales order, click options, then Get Previous Sale (or Ctrl O).  You are then presented with a list of previous invoices for that customer to choose from.  All of the items, quantities, prices and/or discounts will be imported into a new order.

E Commerce – Do you want to sell or promote your products online?

Both ABM and MYOB have add-on modules at reasonable costs that will allow you to showcase your products online, provide a site for customer purchases and are fully integrated with your accounting software.

Customers can have their own log in area which will show their pricing, plus view and print invoices and see their outstanding balance.  Sales are imported back into the accounting software, so saves manual data entry.

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