A STATE Government move to cash in on the golden handshakes given to executives is going to increase the cost of sacking staff, potentially from July 1.
THE wage for a fitter on shift at a BHP-Billiton iron ore site has grown by nearly $32,000, from $74,949 in 1999 to $106,800 today, thanks to incentives offered by firstly a Western Australian
A COMPANY’S image can become the mainstay of its marketing push. It ties together the company’s reputation and everything that it stands for and is the basis for communication to key audiences.
THERE is little doubt that the glass ceiling still exists within many organisations but there is an argument that new styles of management being adopted by organisations will remove it.
A NUMBER of advertising firms and at least one non-advertising company are lining up to try and knock incumbent Western Australian Government master media contract holder Marketforce off its perch.
THE WA Industrial Relations Commission registered just three Employee-Employer Agreements in six months, casting doubt over the State Government’s much vaunted answer to the workplace agreements it abolished last year.
LICENSED car dealers are threatening to take industry investigations into their own hands, claiming the Western Australian Government’s policy to tackle illegal car dealers has failed.
TIGHT budgets, a tough stock market and investors watching for any signs of corporate extravagance have removed the gloss from the business of producing annual reports.
In the first instalment in a four-part series on marketing for small businesses, Noel Dyson examines the need for ‘a plan’.
A MARKETING plan is considered crucial for success of any business, let alone a small business.
WESTERN Australia’s tourism operators are concerned they will lose out on lucrative business because two of the State’s key events are under a cloud amid increasing competition from New South Wales and Victoria.
SEVERAL independent supermarkets have launched a campaign to reduce the number of plastic shopping bags their stores use each year in light of the proposed 25-cent plastic bag levy.
In the final of a four-part series on recruitment agencies, Noel Dyson investigates the question of whether companies should outsource their human resources.
IT has been a fascinating year at Christmas Island company Phosphate Resources Limited, which has been embroiled in a shareholder squabble since Como-based Asset Backed Holdings entered the company’s register in 2002 and its directors...
MORE companies are turning to 360-degree assessment as a way of giving their staff founded feedback on the way they are performing, and as a chance to improve themselves.
ONE week after surviving a threatened Aliquot Asset Management boardroom spill, Michael Perrott and Antony Rigoll have avoided a similar battle with shareholders at Phosphate Resources Limited by stepping down as directors.
