How to identify the true employer where companies, trading names, directors, labour-hire entities or informal arrangements make the contracting party unclear.
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Unpaid-wage disputes can produce both arrears and penalties. This guide explains wage and time records, deliberate or repeated breaches, and why cashflow pressure does not remove minimum-employment obligations.
How Covid-19 wage-subsidy arrangements interacted with wages, hours, leave and restructuring, and why subsidy support did not itself authorise employers to reduce contractual or statutory entitlements.
When a workplace investigation may fall within the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act, and why the investigator's role, activities and licensing status should be checked before evidence is gathered.
