Staff Reporters

A Perth-based recruitment company has received favourable attention for its newly released online invoice/timesheet system.The systems marries human resource management, cost accounting and knowledge management in one system.

THE recently announced workers’ compensation premium rate hike will pose a substantial challenge to employers. Employers face an average 34 per cent increase. Some industries will experience increases of more than 100 per cent.

IN WA, traditional industrial awards no longer reign supreme.Employers are now entering into flexible workplace agreements with their employees in the search for higher productivity and industrial peace.

WOMEN are still lagging behind men in the economic stakes, according to a preliminary report commissioned by the Commonwealth and State Ministers for the Status of Women.

Chianti on Colin’s is a success story nonpareil. It has a host of devotees and owner Brian Greenwood is surely one of the most polished front-of-house men in the business. It is also proof positive that food isn’t everything.

TWO enterprising cartographers have hung up shingles in Northbridge and are drumming up business from the local hydrocarbon and minerals industries.

Large companies, single contractors and the taxi and hospitality sectors may find themselves under the Australian Tax Office microscope at the end of this financial year.

MINISTER for Women’s Interests Rhonda Parker has recently announced 21 projects to receive funding through round three of the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage grants program.

THE Workplace Liaison Service informs small businesses what they can achieve under a workplace agreement, detailing the options for employment conditions and arrangements.

TASMANIAN and western bluegum plantations planted in the South West eight or nine years ago are about to bear fruit.Thousands of hec-tares have been planted and by 2000 and 2001 significant tonnages are expected to be taken.

EXECUTIVES and managers re-employed after retrenchment gained an average salary increase of 6 per cent, a survey by outplacement and career management company DBM Australia has found.

THE current focus for Perth-based St Francis Mining NL is Bolivia, where it has acquired 60 per cent equity in the Chacarilla project.

SERIOUS interest from several players has been expressed in purchasing the El Caballo resort, loca-ted 45 minutes east of Perth.

“NEVER knock back a business opportunity,” is Liz Davenport’s advice to up-and-coming young female executives.

The Grant Burge 1997 Filsell Shiraz and 1997 Cameron Vale Cabernet Sauvignon are probably the best Filsell and Cameron Vale reds we’ve made says Grant Burge.

It has been fascinating to observe the waves of reaction to the introduction of the Internet over the past few years.The arrival of all major new technologies produces some very predictable responses.

A tourism drive by the Collie Shire will see the establishment of a new $7.7 million resort-style complex to attract visitors to the area.

EMPLOYMENT National has placed more than 75,000 people across Australia into jobs in its first year of operation.It listed more than 130,000 vacancies since April 1998 and has approximately 25,000 job seekers registered in WA.

ARC Energy NL is focussing its full attention on the Dongara gas field, where it has undertaken a detailed technical review and a series of well workovers to increase both the reserve base and well output.

Herdsman is still one of the most easily accessible and in-demand commercial/industrial areas in Perth in the opinion of real estate agents Colliers Jardine. This is despite the significant growth of some recent alternatives.

MANY women receive unequal treatment when applying for finance, says Challenge Bank head of marketing Melissa Reynolds.

Michele and Alain Mandois are the latest in a long line of champagne makers, being sixth generation owners of the family vineyard Comte de Lantage which originated in the mid 1800s.

Look in the papers and you soon realise how many small local retailers are competing with larger national brands for the consumer dollar.

Finance professionals in the resources industry should grab their diaries now and pencil in the CPA Resources Convention.

RECRUITMENT companies servicing the resource sector are “a bit flat”, says TR Technical Support general manager Des Linehan.

TAX reform is always difficult politically. In 1985, Messrs Keating, Hawke, Crean and Beazley were strong supporters of the introduction of a goods and services tax as a basis for re-forming our tax system and cutting our growing dependency on income taxe

A MAJOR new commercial centre is being carefully planned by LandCorp at the Ocean Keys business centre in the northern suburb of Clarkson.

PASTA has been enjoyed for centuries and by tradition, Italian people have consumed more than the rest of the world’s population put together. The picture is now changing.

MOSS Stilling Vinters and Elderton Wines are bringing Richard Sheedy over to Perth for a tasting of his entire range of wines on 23 June.

THE Great Australian Bight off the Goldfields region of WA could become the next hydrocarbon province.This follows the recent completion of an extensive seismic survey conducted aboard the vessel MV Sea Challenger by GHD-Gardline, a joint venture compri

Small business should have access to ongoing compensation to offset the cost of a vastly more complex GST, says the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants tax director Angela Ryan.

Whether people personally lost a job or not, the downsizing of the ’80s and ’90s has created a paradigm shift in the way people view their work life and manage their careers.