If you're looking for information and advice about employer / employee rights and responsibilities, I recommend you go straight to the source in the first instance and check out the Fair Work Ombudsman web site.
Below are links to some key pages on their site to help you quickly find the info you need. You can also contact them directly to ask questions.
Below are links to some key pages on their site to help you quickly find the info you need. You can also contact them directly to ask questions.
Fair Work Home Page
Information and advice about Australia's workplace rights and rules.
Information and advice about Australia's workplace rights and rules.
Find My Award
Use this 3-step form to help find the right award for your employees.
Use this 3-step form to help find the right award for your employees.
Fair Work Pay Calculator
The Pay Calculator calculates base pay rates, allowances and penalty rates (including overtime). It's the tool Fair Work’s Infoline advisers use to answer employer / employee inquiries.
The Pay Calculator calculates base pay rates, allowances and penalty rates (including overtime). It's the tool Fair Work’s Infoline advisers use to answer employer / employee inquiries.
Fair Work's Pay Guides
If you know which awards apply in your workplace, the Pay Guides provide a downloadable summary of the current minimum weekly and hourly pay rates for full-time, part-time and casual employees covered by that award.
If you know which awards apply in your workplace, the Pay Guides provide a downloadable summary of the current minimum weekly and hourly pay rates for full-time, part-time and casual employees covered by that award.
Fair Work Information Statement
The Fair Work Information Statement provides new employees with information about their conditions of employment. Employers must provide all new employees with a copy of the statement before, or as soon as possible after, they start their new job and maintain employer records as evidence of doing so.
The Fair Work Information Statement provides new employees with information about their conditions of employment. Employers must provide all new employees with a copy of the statement before, or as soon as possible after, they start their new job and maintain employer records as evidence of doing so.
Other organisations with info about your employer obligations.
WorkCover Queensland
Queensland’s workplace health and safety body for information about workplace safety laws and compliance, as well as workers compensation.
Queensland’s workplace health and safety body for information about workplace safety laws and compliance, as well as workers compensation.
Business.gov.au
Provides a range of free tools and resources useful to business. Check out the Employing Workers section under the Running Your Business page.
Provides a range of free tools and resources useful to business. Check out the Employing Workers section under the Running Your Business page.
