News Affairs

Envisioning a post-COVID Australia, the Federal Government is offering financial relief to employers that aims to both help reduce youth unemployment and close skills gaps. Here’s what you need to know about JobMaker.

Heard of RealMe®? A New Zealand Government initiative, RealMe is a fully verified form of digital identity that NZ residents are now using to easily and securely verify who they are when accessing both government and private online services. From why it was created to how it works and how to get verified, here’s everything you need to know.

More than 23 million breaches of Australian anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance laws will see Westpac pay a record-breaking fine.

A former principal who taught at some of Melbourne’s most prestigious schools over a five-decade career has been charged with fraud. Here’s what happened and how it could have been prevented.

With a history of fraud and deception, 23-year-old Tyson Vacher, should never have been able to scam the community again. But it seems he has, this time masquerading as a qualified psychologist.

Small business owners are still grappling with the nuances of JobKeeper and what it means for their company, so we enlisted the help of RSM Australia to answer your most pressing questions about the scheme.

A temporary wage-subsidy scheme called JobKeeper will support businesses and staff who have been financially impacted by COVID-19. Here’s what you need to do to apply and prepare.

Coronavirus is hitting businesses hard – both here and around the world. We explore your alternatives to mass redundancies in the wake of the greatest health and economic crisis of our generation.

The public servant who was sacked from her senior SA government role for a string of charges, including CV fraud, has faced the music and will spend at least a year behind bars for her deception.

Popular British daily newspaper, The Daily Mail, has gone undercover to bust one of the country’s leading exam boards for dodgy hiring. Here’s how it all went down, and the simple steps the company could have taken to keep its reputation – and people – safe.

Hoping to work or study in the United States? You might like to think twice about your social media posts because now, all visa applicants are required to disclose their social media user names.

A new law in South Africa could see dishonest job applicants spend up to five years behind bars. So if you’ve got a few inconsistencies on your CV, perhaps now’s a good time to tidy it up?

A South African Airways (SAA) pilot is facing criminal charges after it was revealed he’d been flying his entire career using a fake license.

On his Instagram account, Dr Matthew Mode poses in blue scrubs and promotes the cosmetic procedures he performed at up-scale Romanian clinics. In reality, however, the ‘renowned surgeon’ is anything but. Here’s how simple checks could have exposed Mode’s dangerous fraud.

In the 2018 unfair dismissal case brought against Hertz Australia by former employee Charles Tham, the Fair Work Commission sided with the employer. And while the dispute presents an excellent case study for hiring managers, does the commentary in the media around this dispute miss the point?

Last week, news reports emerged of the case against Veronica Theriault, who was recruited to a senior SA government role last May. Theriault has since been sacked from the position and now faces a string of charges, including CV fraud. In this article, we look briefly at the case alleged by the prosecution and identify the key lessons for employers.