Clauses to watch for in a shareholder agreement
If you run a company, no matter how big or small, your company shareholders agreement will be the most important legal document you’re likely to deal with.
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If you run a company, no matter how big or small, your company shareholders agreement will be the most important legal document you’re likely to deal with.
Confidentiality agreements, or non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), are very common and business owners often won’t want to pay a lawyer to complete the review of every document for them.
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has been waging the ‘Small Business Too Big to Ignore’ campaign since April in a bid to ensure the sector isn’t forgotten in the 2013 federal election.
There’s a lot to think about when you’re buying or selling a business. Entrepreneurs often get stuck into the details of the transaction without thinking about the legal issues they may need to deal with and how they intend to approach them.
Each year the Australian Taxation office targets key sectors of Australian business for audit campaigns – in its Compliance in Focus 2013 notice, small businesses are among those to have drawn the short straw.
Restaurants and cafés will no longer have to produce separate menus for weekends and public holidays when they might apply a surcharge.
While it may seem that we’ve come a long way from the Mad Men days where discrimination was part and parcel of office life, the truth is often far from that.
Several reforms to the NSW WorkCover scheme, designed to reduce the administrative burden on the state’s small business owners, will come into effect on 30 June this year.
One of the keys to success in business today is ensuring your online marketing material is engaging, with SMBs using images and artwork that are pleasing to the eye to attract an audience.
When terminating an employee by reason of redundancy, it is critical to ensure the redundancy is genuine, provide a fair consultative process and know your employee’s entitlements.
Australian SMEs are encouraged to use the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) database to search for and register security interests and avoid running into financial difficulty.
From diet pills to penis enlargement pumps, fraudulent products are rife in the online market. Con artists are increasingly taking advantage of people’s body image insecurities for financial gain, but who’s to blame?
Ever wish you could go back in time to the day you submitted your university law enrolment form, and choose a completely different area to study?
More Australian businesses are allowing customers to post comments and feedback either on the business’ website or on their social media sites. With the benefits of customer interaction comes the risk of legal liability for customer comments on a business website.
The typical Australian family business owner is now 55-years-old. Retirement or cutting down their hours is on their radars, but very few are putting the right plans in place to make it happen.
So you have taken the plunge to start your own business. This article aims to provide a high level summary to guide you through the process of setting up your own business.
No matter what your business is, getting people back to work after an injury is not only critical to the worker’s recovery, but also critical to your bottom line.
Taking on an employee is a serious part of the business as there are many pitfalls that can bring you unstuck if the right processes are not followed. We focus on the legal aspects of hiring an employee from a tax office and superannuation stand point.
With administrations and liquidations steadily on the rise, more businesses are finding themselves having to deal with the fact that their trading partner has fallen into potentially fatal financial strife.
A prominent city billboard advertisement for corporate Christmas parties includes the slogan “Nothing HR can’t sort out in the morning”. The slogan is likely to strike a chord with many employers.