How Covid-19 has affected Global Mobility When the WHO officially declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020, few would have predicted the extent to which the world would change, and the speed at which the change would happen. Border closures and travel restrictions had an immediate impact on global mobility (GM) [...]
Fair Work Commission Releases Changes To High Income Threshold 1 July 2020 - The Fair Work Commission has released its annual increase to the high income threshold. From an Australian immigration perspective, this threshold affects the salary benchmark that applicants aged over 45 years must now meet. From 1 July 2020, the high income [...]
The New Standards Your Corporate Accommodation Providers Should Be Meeting Mobility practitioners have adapted quickly to the sweeping changes the COVID-19 pandemic has required them to make to their 2020 strategies, but with travel restrictions slowly easing in some parts of the world, there is renewed interest in corporate travel and what new Standards [...]
Responding to Covid-19 Threat Australian Borders Close To All Non-Residents Effective 9.00pm AEDT on 20 March, 2020 ONLY Australian Citizens, residents and immediate family members will be allowed to travel to Australia. Key points All non-residents will be banned from arriving in Australia from 9:00pm AEDT today. This ban replaces earlier travel bans on [...]
Introducing Quest Joondalup Welcoming guests since its opening in November 2019, Quest Joondalup brings a new standard of apartment hotels to travellers visiting Perth’s northern suburbs. Centrally positioned between the Joondalup Health Campus, Lakeside Joondalup Shopping Centre, Edith Cowan University and the beautiful Neil Hawkins Park, Quest Joondalup caters for overnight, short and long [...]
Duty of care. Do you care? Employee Safety: In Australian law, duty of care is ‘a legal duty to take reasonable care not to cause harm to another person that could be reasonably foreseen.’ A duty of care is even breached when a person is injured because of the inaction, of another person. Employers [...]
Collaboration lowers costs and delivers stress-free relocations for Telstra An open and solutions-focused partnership between Telstra and Toll Transitions was recognised with the Most Valued Service Provider Collaboration Award at the 2019 TEMI Gala Awards. Telstra is synonymous with telecommunications in Australia but it is also a global technology company, employing a contingent workforce [...]
New tax law removes the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) exemption on the sale of a Main Residence for many Australian’s living overseas In a tax change which will likely be of concern and interest to many Australian’s living overseas, on 5 December 2019 a Bill to remove the main residence capital gains tax exemption [...]
Ashley Croxford draws on expat experience and passion to bolster the industry Ashley Croxford, who leads the employee mobility function in Australasia for consulting firm Arup, took home the most prestigious award for an individual at the inaugural TEMI Gala Awards in November 2019. Ashley won ‘Champion of the Year’—sponsored by Grace—in recognition of [...]
A smart option for work relocations and extended stays When business needs require an employee to spend an extended period of time away from home, or relocate to another city or country, Airbnb for Work can provide an accommodation solution that gives corporate travel and mobility managers a flexible option for long-term stays and [...]
Leading Culturally Diverse Teams in Workplace
