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Mandatory Face Masks In The Workplace, Everything Employers Need To Know

Wednesday 22th September 2021

Mandatory Face Masks In The Workplace, Everything Employers Need To Know

A well-fitted, clean face mask is essential to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Different states and territories may have different rules about wearing face masks or coverings at work. This can depend on whether an enforceable government or public health direction applies so make sure you check if any of these directions apply to your business. You can be held legally accountable if you do not fulfil your employer health and safety obligations, as well as if you put your employees’ health at serious risk. 

Yotpo partners with Shopify, eyes Australia expansion

Yotpo, an international e-commerce marketing platform, has announced its launch into Australia, following a multi-year platform collaboration with Shopify, considerable market growth with big Australian names, and a plan to help local Aussie ecommerce flourish. 

How to appoint the right board for your startup

Two things kill fast-growth companies: cash flow and dysfunctional boards. No visionary and entrepreneurial journey is ever easy, especially if you embark on tackling a challenge that has never been solved before

Hiring in a pandemic: potential versus experience

Having insight into sustainable practices is more important than ever to the public, employees, business owners, and investors. A new platform now allows SMEs to track their sustainable energy usage.

Essential components for growing beyond Australia’s borders

Recent estimates place Australia as the world’s tenth-largest ecommerce market, with Australians spending around A$52.2 billion ($36.7 billion) online in 2020, an increase of almost 14 per cent on 2019’s numbers. Forecasts from analytics company, GlobalData, suggest that Aussies’ online spending will hit A$77.1 billion ($54.2 billion) in 2024.

Despite the fact that large parts of Australia are closed down, consumer sentiment is rising. People who have not yet been vaccinated but are looking forward to it are the most confident. People who are unwilling to be vaccinated have the lowest level of confidence.Confidence is up among the 57% of respondents who have had at least one vaccine dosage, reaching 103.7 points. Even more confident are the 27% of persons who are unvaccinated but willing to be vaccinated. The remaining 16% of respondents who characterised themselves as either unwilling to be vaccinated or uncertain have a sentiment level of 90.

According to Bloomberg News, US officials are investigating probable insider trading and market manipulation at Binance, potentially adding further heat to the cryptocurrency exchange that has become a subject of regulatory investigation in numerous nations.

Facebook criticized a series of Wall Street Journal articles regarding its platform as containing “deliberate mischaracterizations” and “conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook’s leadership and employees.”

The Indian government’s aid plan for the country’s struggling telecom sector has been welcomed by industry executives and analysts. The package includes a four-year exemption from paying statutory dues for telecom businesses, automatic approval for 100 per cent foreign investment, authorization to share scarce airwaves, and a revision in the definition of revenue on which levies are paid. However, the government underlined that companies that take advantage of the four-year moratorium will be required to pay interest. It also eliminates the spectrum usage charge for airwaves obtained in future spectrum auctions.

According to U.S. government emails obtained by Reuters, a top U.S. trade official privately criticised India’s July decision to prohibit Mastercard from issuing new cards, calling it a “draconian” move that caused “panic.”

According to the Guardian, the majority of the UK’s small energy suppliers may be left to fail this winter as the government’s crisis negotiations focus on safeguarding people rather than bailing out struggling companies. Five small operators have gone bankrupt in the previous five weeks, leaving more than 500,000 consumers without a supplier, and industry sources predict that another four may fail before the end of the month, leaving 1 million people stranded.

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