• provider and host obligations under the labour hire licensing scheme
• LHA’s recent and upcoming compliance and enforcement activities
• recent legal and regulatory changes in labour hire
• new resources to support compliance.

Get ready for STP2 reporting
Single Touch Payroll (STP) has been expanded, we have now introduced STP Phase 2.
As an employer, you’ll need to report more information about your employees each pay day. You can do this through your payroll software. We’ve worked closely with Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and most payroll software is now ready for STP Phase 2 reporting. Contact your DSP to check that your payroll software is ready. If you’re not prepared for STP Phase 2, your registered tax or BAS agent can help.
To learn more about the changes to STP, we’ve developed some simple, detailed guidelines to help businesses just like yours get it right. We also have some resources designed to help you with your STP reporting obligations. Visit the ATO website for more information

Need a hand with your employees’ tax and super?
No matter where you may be in your hiring journey, we’re here to support you in meeting your obligations as an employer. We have resources to help you with:

• withholding your employees’ tax
• paying super guarantee contributions
• single touch payroll
• managing employees' fringe benefits
• correctly classifying your workers.

For more information and to check out our top tips for employers, visit Engaging a worker. Remember, tax professionals and BAS agents can help you with your employer obligations.

With the arrival of two large ships each carrying hundreds of containers of Chilean prunes and plums, Chilean stone fruits entered the peak of arrivals this week. In addition, the first batch of New Zealand apples and pears was on the market. The imported avocado, which has maintained a high price for several weeks, has gradually lowered its price in the past two weeks.

Visit the Fresh Plaza website to read more of this article.

Jake and Nick Rasch are sixth-generation fruit growers who are putting their own spin on new technologies and orchard training systems on their more than 500-acre operation on West Michigan’s famed Fruit Ridge.

Tour visitors from the International Fruit Tree Association’s (IFTA) annual conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in February were shown a block of Bellaire peaches planted in 2020 on Bailey rootstock at Rasch Family Orchards.

The in-row, V-system peach blocks have produced more uniform-sized fruit, and the number of peach pickings has been reduced from eight or nine down to five or six.

Read more of this Fruit Growers News article here..

Changes to labour hire accommodation regulations
Some providers will need to meet new requirements under the Public Health and Wellbeing (Prescribed Accommodation) Regulations 2020. 
or Victorian labour hire providers, this means that from 15 February 2023, all labour hire accommodation:

• must be registered by the proprietor with the local council
• must meet cleanliness, hygiene, maintenance and other standards under the Public Health and Wellbeing (Prescribed Accommodation) Regulations 2020.

Visit the Rural Women's Network website for more information on the 2023 Rural Women's Leadership Program, and also the 2023 Rural Women's Mentoring Program