What are the rights of the employee and then employer to return to the office? By Erin Kidd, Senior Lawyer As Australia commences it’s return to normality, the internet is already abuzz with questions about the return of employees to their workplaces. When will it happen? How will it happen? And,Read More →
Here’s what you need to know about the new COVIDSafe app: Almost 5 million Australians have already downloaded the COVIDSafe app. All Australians with a mobile phone are encouraged to get the app and help slow the spread of coronavirus and support the easing of restrictions. What is theRead More →
Premier Daniel Andrews has announced stage 1 easing of restrictions in Victoria. Now households are allowed to have up to five people visit them in their homes from midnight on Tuesday, May 12. These Stage 1 easing of restrictions will remain in place for the next three weeks. This stageRead More →
Prime Minister Scott Morrison along with his Chief Medical Officer, Brendan Murphy, announced a three-step plan to re-opening of Australia after the COVID-19 lockdowns. Although Scott Morrison hoped the final phase – step three could be achieved in July, but it would really be up to each state and territoryRead More →
With Victorian schools having gone online, their regular mode of teaching totally disrupted, VCE students are worried about their VCE 2020 results. Victorian educational institution TSFX has surveyed over 3,500 current VCE students to gauge their feelings on home learning and its effects on their 2020 studies. 97% of students areRead More →
Help is only a phone call – or video call – away thanks to new telehealth consultations being used across a range of Wyndham City’s family services. Wyndham families can now stay in touch with Council’s Maternal and Child Health nurses, Family Services Staff and Youth Counsellors via Coviu, aRead More →
New figures released today show Australia’s banks have deferred an extra 100,000 loans, including approximately 50,000 home loans, over the last week to help customers through the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the total number of loans deferred to at least 643,000. This new data released today shows the total value ofRead More →
Since the COVID-19 pandemic forced many countries to close their borders, India left many of its own citizens stranded abroad closing its borders to even its own citizens. Hundreds of thousands of Indian nationals are stranded overseas awaiting Indian government to allow them to be flown home. And Air IndiaRead More →
Victoria reported 14 more coronavirus cases on Thursday, 13 of them linked to a growing cluster in a Melbourne meat works – Cedar Meats – taking the total number to 62. Addressing the media this morning, Premier Daniel Andrews said seven of the new abattoir cases were in employees, theRead More →
As Australia is managing its pugilistic fight with COVID-19 well, the nation’s leaders are starting to look for possible scenarios on the ‘other side’. And hearing Prime Minister Scott Morrison today, the picture is very bleak on the ‘other side’. Mr Morrison says Australia has 1 million unemployed having lost theirRead More →