By Thomas Parer and Zoe Brodie, NRA Legal Televisions have become flatter, we’ve moved from typewriters to laptops, and...
By Thomas Parer and Zoe Brodie, NRA Legal Televisions have become flatter, we’ve moved from typewriters to laptops, and now mobile phones have become our everything-in-one device which dominates communication and even some people’s lives. A number of apps and online platforms have emerged to facilitate a purely digital...
By Kyle Swain, Retail Director Australia + New Zealand, Lpc Cresa The e-commerce boom has turned traditional ‘bricks and mortar’...
By Kyle Swain, Retail Director Australia + New Zealand, Lpc Cresa The e-commerce boom has turned traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ retailing on its head. From ‘bricks and clicks’ in the late 90’s to the rise of Amazon, now the world’s largest retail marketplace, we have all changed the way we...
From 01 October 2019, drivers who fail to pay for their fuel at services stations across Queensland could be...
From 01 October 2019, drivers who fail to pay for their fuel at services stations across Queensland could be alerted to their offence by SMS or Email. QPS Flyer re Drive Off Initiative (CLICK HERE) On Tuesday 1 October 2019, the Queensland Police Service (QPS) commenced a one month trial aimed...
As announced by the Victorian Government last year, it will be illegal to supply a customer with a lightweight...
As announced by the Victorian Government last year, it will be illegal to supply a customer with a lightweight plastic shopping bag in Victoria from 1 November 2019. Over the past 6 months, the National Retail Association have been travelling across Victoria, engaging over 13,000 retailers in 180 locations to provide advice and...
Last week the ABS released the August retail trade report. Although the results were slightly below forecasts, it was...
Last week the ABS released the August retail trade report. Although the results were slightly below forecasts, it was still a much improved set of figures from those for July. Across the country turnover increased by 0.4 per cent, with all but one industry seeing a pickup from the previous...
Unpacking the Christmas lights: how to maximise your sales with visual merchandising By Rebecca Goulter, National Retail Association Welcome to October!...
Unpacking the Christmas lights: how to maximise your sales with visual merchandising By Rebecca Goulter, National Retail Association Welcome to October! For retailers Australia-wide, it’s high time to start planning how your store will smash it out of the park visually with its Christmas display. For many consumers, the visual merchandising of...
By Zoe Brodie and Calum Woods, NRA Legal Whether it’s a quarrelsome employee, a serial underperformer, or a casualty of...
By Zoe Brodie and Calum Woods, NRA Legal Whether it’s a quarrelsome employee, a serial underperformer, or a casualty of automation, the stress of dismissing an employee doesn’t end on their last day of employment. It’s not until 3 weeks (or 21 days) later, when the time limit to file a...
The digital age has made the internet central to the lives of just about everyone on the planet. But...
The digital age has made the internet central to the lives of just about everyone on the planet. But it’s not just in our personal lives that it has become integral, running and operating a business also requires fast and reliable broadband. However, different businesses have different needs and there...
With retail continuing to undergo a period of slow sales and low consumer confidence, one of the biggest challenges...
With retail continuing to undergo a period of slow sales and low consumer confidence, one of the biggest challenges is keeping you and your staff motivated. Owning your own business can be a gruelling experience at the best of times and this is only compounded when economic conditions are sluggish....
Redundancy: A question of intent By Alex Millman and Lindsay Carroll, NRA Legal The concept of redundancy is a reasonably straightforward...
Redundancy: A question of intent By Alex Millman and Lindsay Carroll, NRA Legal The concept of redundancy is a reasonably straightforward one – the employer no longer requires the particular job occupied by an individual to be done by anyone. Case closed. The Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) modifies this...
Work-related psychological injury is expensive – it’s estimated that poor psychological health and safety costs Australian organisations $6 billion...
Work-related psychological injury is expensive – it’s estimated that poor psychological health and safety costs Australian organisations $6 billion per annum in lost productivity. Commencing in National Safe Work Month (October), WorkSafe ACT is running free 2 hour workshops (in Dickson) to provide guidance to anyone who has a Work...
By Thomas Parer and Lindsay Carroll, NRA Legal The Christmas holiday period is a vital time of the year for...
By Thomas Parer and Lindsay Carroll, NRA Legal The Christmas holiday period is a vital time of the year for many retailers, with many patiently waiting for the expected uptick in sales. This busy period of the year can bring with it many problems for employers to grapple with before...
JOINT STATEMENT Minister for Employment and Small Business and Minister for Training and Skills Development The Honourable Shannon Fentiman Minister for Agricultural...
JOINT STATEMENT Minister for Employment and Small Business and Minister for Training and Skills Development The Honourable Shannon Fentiman Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries The Honourable Mark Furner Disaster assistance has been activated for primary producers, small businesses and not-for-profit organisations affected by the unprecedented bushfires in the Southern Downs Regional Council...
A lot has been made of the recent ABS retail figures for July. There’s no denying that the results...
A lot has been made of the recent ABS retail figures for July. There’s no denying that the results – which included a drop in turnover of 0.1 per cent – were underwhelming to say the least. On top of this, the fact that the Federal Government’s tax cuts came...
De-mystifying discrimination and mental health By Thomas Parer and Lindsay Carroll, NRA Legal The last major study into mental health in Australia...
De-mystifying discrimination and mental health By Thomas Parer and Lindsay Carroll, NRA Legal The last major study into mental health in Australia by the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirmed that 15% of Australians had experienced an affective disorder like depression, while 26.3% have experienced an anxiety disorder. The increasing awareness of mental health...
The National Retail Association prides itself on being the voice of modern retail. We’re fortunate to have a membership which...
The National Retail Association prides itself on being the voice of modern retail. We’re fortunate to have a membership which spans all-sized businesses, from the biggest retailers to the smallest, that is also keeping pace with the rapidly changing face of retail across a wide range of issues. It was therefore...