{"id":15312,"date":"2019-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinnacle-people.ap.applyflow.com\/budget-summary-crackdown-on-sham-contracting-and-underpayments\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:00:00","slug":"budget-summary-crackdown-on-sham-contracting-and-underpayments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/budget-summary-crackdown-on-sham-contracting-and-underpayments\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Summary: Crackdown on Sham Contracting and Underpayments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px\">It was announced in last night\u2019s Budget funding for a national labour hire registration scheme and the establishment of a dedicated sham contracting unit.&nbsp;<strong>The Fair Work Ombudsman will receive $2.3 million a year<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 or $9.2 million over four years from 2019-20 \u2013&nbsp;to establish a dedicated sham contracting unit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px\">According to Budget papers, &#8220;the unit will more effectively tackle sham contracting by increasing education, compliance and enforcement activities, and dedicating additional resources to investigate and litigate cases.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px\">The Fair Work Ombudsman will be allocated an extra $10.8 million over four years from 2019-20 to boost its ability to conduct investigations into underpayment and related matters.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px\">With this renewed focus on Labour Hire and those industries targeted as high risk for underpayment, Employers should pay close and immediate attention to their &#8220;extended workforce\u201d (Labour Hire and subcontractors and outsourced workers) to ensure they are being correctly remunerated and afforded their statutory employment conditions and entitlements or they too could be found liable for any non-compliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><strong>Slower Wage Growth<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px\">It was also announced last night that the Federal Government has revised down its forecasts for wage growth to 2.5% but predicts wages will rise rapidly in 2020-21 to 3.25% a year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget funding for a national labour hire registration scheme and the establishment of a dedicated sham contracting unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/15313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}