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Check out our Brisbane Fun Run participants

On 15 October 2023, a group of 16 x Perrier Ryan people participated in the Bridge to Brisbane Fun run. Special thanks to Bridgette for organising the group's participation. Here are a few happy snaps from the day - and what a beautiful Brisbane day it was - Fun Run fun.

posted 31/10/2023

Christina and her husband Terry welcomed baby Jack in September

All indications are that Christina and Terry are quite rightly, besotted - and so far, little Jack is doing all the right things for a new born. We congratulate them as they build their family.

Success is marked in many ways

Earlier this year, Paul, who is a mad keen and serious cyclist, qualified for the UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow.

The race was run on 5 August and after that he enjoyed some time travelling around Scotland.

Anyone who knows Paul also knows he's also mad keen on numbers and stats, so here's some about the race:

• He competed in the UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow in the M50 category. Former Pro, Alexander Vinokurov from Kazakhstan won his first Gold after already having won Gold during the London Olympics in 2012. The others on the podium were all ex-Tour de France riders – which gives you an indication of the quality of the field;
• Paul completed the 160km race at an average speed of 29km/hr into a massive head wind for the whole course;
• He was sick with an upset tummy (we won’t give gory details) in the 24 hours leading into the race and still managed to finish;
• There were 238 riders so he is in the top 238 riders in the world for his age.

He trains hard ordinarily, but he worked really hard in preparation for the Race.

In relation to the race, he went over there with three main goals:

1. arrive safely
2. start the race
3. finish the race.

Success.

posted 29/8/2023

Queensland has just followed in the footsteps of the ACT and Victoria and criminalised wage theft - with new laws that focus on penalising employers who intentionally steal from their employees by failing to provide them with their full entitlements. The Wage Theft Act commenced on 14/9/2020 and amends the Criminal Code to provide that employee entitlements are a thing capable of being stolen. Entitlements that can be stolen include:

• Unpaid hours or underpayment of hours
• unpaid penalty rates
• unreasonable deductions
• unpaid superannuation
• withholding entitlements 
• underpayment through intentionally misclassifying a worker including wrong aware, wrong classification or 'sham contracting' and the misuse of ABNs
• authorised deductions that have not been applied as agreed.

The Queensland Police Service (QPS) have been given jurisdiction to investigate claims of wage theft.

It is important to note that the QPS would need to prove that the employer had intentionally stolen wages from an employee or had intentionally sought to deprive the employee of their entitlements as opposed to a situation where an employer has accidentally underpaid staff and seeks to rectify that underpayment when it is identified.

Penalties for wage theft include imprisonment of up to 10 years. Where an employer commits fraud against an employee, the employer is liable to imprisonment for up to 14 years.

It is probably timely for employers to review their employment agreements. Annual internal reviews of employees pays to ensure they've been paid correctly - and immediately rectify any identified shortfalls - is also worth consideration.

(posted 23/9/2020)