Business Advice

A group of small businesses have filed a class action against Tyro Payments, seeking compensation for losses incurred during a prolonged outage.

Changes to company director IDs come into effect today, with new directors required to apply for their new 15-digit unique identifier number within 28 days.

Small businesses onboarding staff will be required to figure out whether new recruits have an existing super account, under new government rules coming into effect next month.

Origin Energy has dished out $5 million in fines after a Victorian regulator found it charged illegal exit fees to more than 22,000 small businesses.

The Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 will be subject to a review led by a team from the department of the prime minister and cabinet.

The Western Australian government has joined other states in issuing a sweeping vaccine mandate that will cover thousands of workers.

The competition regulator has warned franchisors of their legal obligations now that reforms to the $180 billion sector have come into effect.

Small businesses forced to comply with vaccine mandates face serious legal risks when collecting and storing the health data of their staff.

Victoria’s new vaccine mandate kicks in this week, requiring up to 1.25 million authorised workers to have at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose by Friday.

Small businesses are pressing ahead with a legal appeal in a bid to compel insurers to pay out pandemic-related losses, after the Federal Court ruled in favour of six insurance companies on Friday.

The federal government has released plans to improve transparency in the $180 billion franchising sector that's often plagued with disputes between franchisees and franchisors.

Lawpath has secured $7.5 million in fresh funding to further scale its legal tech platform for small business owners, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the traditional legal industry.