As a small business owner, you might have expected to wear a crown befitting your royal status.
Turns out you have to wear a whole bunch of hats, some of them are really uncomfortable.
If you want to take back the crown – we look quite fetching in a number of hats, ask to borrow our noggins.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to get some free labour from someone who needs experience in your industry?
But before you bring someone into your business make sure you are on the right side of fairwork!
Fairwork says:
Some unpaid work arrangements are lawful and others are not. Depending on the nature of the arrangement, the person doing the work may be an employee and be entitled to be paid the legal minimum rate of pay for the type of work they’re doing, along with other minimum employment entitlements.
Get someone to grab you a coffee and read through the fine print.
On 6th December 2023 the ATO released a new Tax Ruling in response to a High Court decision about classifying workers.
We’ve trawled through various ATO pages and summarised it for you with links.
To work out if your worker is an employee or contractor, you need to determine whether your worker is serving in your business or is running their own business. You do this by reviewing the legal rights and obligations in the contract you entered into with your worker.
– Ask for help if you need it!
Here’s a summary of our Top 5 apps for professional services businesses.
We’ve partnered with these apps cos we love to use them in our business.
Ask us for a personalised demo if you’d like to know more.
Do you start your week with a bit of scheduling? Do you sort out your to do list or have a team strategy meeting where you delegate tasks to your team to free up more of your day?
What are you going to do, or not do, to snatch back some of your time this week?
If assigning your bookkeeping to professionals is the solution for you – asks us how we can save you time and effort each and every week.
Are you having trouble keeping all the info you need about your business in your head?
Too many to dos?
No idea what the team is up to?
They don’t know what they should do next?
Using an app to store info for you and your team can remove the information overload and to do list overwhelm, is your brain 🤯 ready for extra support?
Ask us to help you select apps to make life easier.
The Optus debacle has reminded us that we need to do all we can do to protect the identity of our client and their staff.
The easiest place to start is not to send any sensitive info by email – if any part of the email chain gets hacked, that info could get into the wrong hands.
Sing out if you have any questions about how we can help you keep your employees top secret info out of the hands of baddies.
Be careful what you wish for!
Do you really know what you are getting yourself in for
It’s not for everyone!
Do you have to chase clients for payment, then kiss up to them to make more sales?
Sick of being the CEO (Chief Everything Officer) in your business?
If your client says ‘Jump’ and you say ‘How high?’ is it really a contractor relationship? Or are you a misclassified employee?
If you are being paid as a contractor, but do not have control over the who, what, when, why, how – you might be involved in sham contracting.
Click through for ATO link
