Australian Workforce Insights

Annual leave and public holidays are the two NES entitlements that generate the most questions from our overseas clients. On the surface they seem simple. Four weeks leave, a handful of public holidays. Easy enough. Then you discover that public holidays vary by state, change year to year, and can actually be moved to a different day by agreement. Here's what you actually need to know. Annual leave - the basics Every full-time Australian employee is entitled to four weeks of

If you're hiring in Australia for the first time, you'll hear the term NES come up early and often. It gets referenced in employment contracts, mentioned by lawyers, flagged in compliance checklists. But very few people actually explain what it is or why it matters for an overseas business managing a small Australian team. So here's the run-down. What is the NES? The National Employment Standards are 11 minimum employment entitlements set out in Australia's Fair Work Act 2009

If there's one thing that catches overseas businesses off guard when they hire their first Australian employee, it's superannuation. Not because it's impossibly complicated, but because it works completely differently to retirement schemes in most other countries and the assumptions people bring with them are almost always wrong. The most common one I hear? "The salary we agreed on includes super, right?" It doesn't. And that misunderstanding can cost you more than you'd expe

Let me guess. You've found a great candidate in Australia, maybe a few, and now someone in your team has asked "should we just set up an entity there?" It's a fair question. And honestly, for most of the overseas businesses we work with, the answer is not yet. Here's how to actually think about it. What does setting up a company in Australia actually involve? It's not just registering a name and opening a bank account. To legally employ someone in Australia through your own e