Why doesn’t your Employment Contract allow for specific Awards?

QUESTION: I am building an Employment Contract for my employee. She’s been with me for 6-years (hence the anxiety). I notice there’s no reference to the Award provisions under which she is employed. Does your Employment Contract override the Award provisions? Should...

Disaster with no employment termination clause

Q: Why put a termination clause in your Employment Contract: Brett, you strongly recommend termination clauses. We approached the website that normally prepares our Employment Contracts. They don’t use termination notices. I asked them why. They said they were...

Son lost the farm to his sisters – Family Trust guilty

  To better understand this article you may wish to first: watch the free Family Trust training course read the latest upgrade requirements to Family Trust Deeds over 5 years old read how to do succession planning in a Family Trust (showing the importance of the...

Are Employment Contracts a waste of time?

The accounting house built Employment Contracts for each of their accountants. The accounting house didn’t waste time getting Employment Contracts for secretaries. Joanne joined the accounting firm as a secretary. She typed letters for the managing partner. She...

Dr Brett Davies’ Thesis – Business Succession Planning

Business Succession Planning Quick links: Dr Brett Davies’ thesis – Click here Estate planning manual – Click here Business Succession Planning Question: Dear Dr Davies, I am a financial planner specialising in business risk. I was hoping that you...

Binding Financial Agreements – do not work. A waste of money.

Binding Financial Agreements (BFAs) are no longer worth the paper they are written on Legal Consolidated Barristers & Solicitors no longer prepares BFAs. To date, all Legal Consolidated BFAs have been upheld in the Family Court and other Courts. We have stopped...