When is a casual employee really a permanent employee?
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When is a casual employee really a permanent employee?

In Australian employment law matters, the real world substance of a work relationship often trumps what the contract says. For example, sometimes people called independent contractors in contracts are really employees. Similarly, sometimes people called casual employees in contracts are really permanent employees – a point recently made clear by the Full Court of the Federal…

Workplace safety for Australian Speech Pathologists in private practice: 8 things you can do this week to make your clinics safer for everyone
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Workplace safety for Australian Speech Pathologists in private practice: 8 things you can do this week to make your clinics safer for everyone

We all want our staff to be safe at work. And most practice owners I know do a lot of work to ensure staff are safe, including employees, contractors and sub-contractors, labour hire employees, students and other volunteers. But we can always do better! Workplace safety laws are numerous and complex, and it’s not surprising…

How can we make speech pathology private practice more ‘hospitable’ for our staff and ourselves?
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How can we make speech pathology private practice more ‘hospitable’ for our staff and ourselves?

Workplace stress! 1. Most private practice owners feel it In a typical month, we might experience cash flow issues caused by late payments and unexpected bills, fake and anonymous online reviews, unexplained spikes in ‘failures to attend’, data privacy challenges, client complaints, social media ‘run-ins’, the odd family law-related subpoena, glitches in clinic and business…

For struggling school kids, what's the difference between seeing a speech pathologist and a tutor?
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For struggling school kids, what’s the difference between seeing a speech pathologist and a tutor?

Over the years, parents have asked me this a few times. I’ve also been asked why speech pathologists are allied health workers; whereas most tutors come from teaching or education backgrounds. Clients and their families should be fully informed about this stuff. So here’s my attempt to answer these tricky questions, recognising others may have different views:…

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