Last week the New South Wales State Government announced that retailers across the state will be able to open...
Last week the New South Wales State Government announced that retailers across the state will be able to open their doors to trade on Boxing Day. An independent review of the two-year trial that took place in 2015 and 2016 recommended the change and we are pleased that the government...
Written by Dominique Lamb, CEO, NRA Adding a surcharge to card payments is a contentious business practice. Generally speaking, it...
Written by Dominique Lamb, CEO, NRA Adding a surcharge to card payments is a contentious business practice. Generally speaking, it needlessly annoys customers and compromises loyalty to your business. That’s why most businesses don’t surcharge. From September 1 this year, the Reserve Bank’s new surcharging rules will apply to small and...
By Alexander Millman and Angela Szczepanski, NRA Legal National Union of Workers v Sigma Company Limited t/a Sigma Healthcare ...
By Alexander Millman and Angela Szczepanski, NRA Legal National Union of Workers v Sigma Company Limited t/a Sigma Healthcare FWCFB 3892 Last week, retail pharmacy group Sigma Healthcare took an industrial relations blow when the approval of its Sigma (Berrinba) Enterprise Agreement 2017 on 30 May 2017 was overturned on...
The Queensland Bag Ban Legislation The Queensland Government has passed the Waste Reduction and Recycling Amendment Bill 2017 which will forbid retailers...
The Queensland Bag Ban Legislation The Queensland Government has passed the Waste Reduction and Recycling Amendment Bill 2017 which will forbid retailers from providing or selling lightweight plastic bags (known as single-use singlet bags) from 1 July 2018. To ensure consistency for the retail sector, Queensland will adopt a similar law to South...
This month marks the 100th anniversary of Wallace Bishop, first opening in 1917. Few companies these days can claim to...
This month marks the 100th anniversary of Wallace Bishop, first opening in 1917. Few companies these days can claim to have been owned and managed by the same family for 100 years. Wallace Bishop has been doing so, with outstanding success, since 1917. A much-loved icon of the jewellery world,...
By Alexander Millman and Angela Szczepanski, NRA Legal FWO v MHoney Pty Ltd & Anor FCCA 2959 In November last...
By Alexander Millman and Angela Szczepanski, NRA Legal FWO v MHoney Pty Ltd & Anor FCCA 2959 In November last year, Judge Burchardt of the Federal Circuit Court in Melbourne found that MHoney Pty Ltd and its director, Mr Abdulrahman Taleb, had deliberately engaged in multiple serious and deliberate contraventions...
Boxing Day trade continues in NSW The NSW Government today announced it will legislate to allow Boxing Day trade to...
Boxing Day trade continues in NSW The NSW Government today announced it will legislate to allow Boxing Day trade to continue in all parts of NSW, in accordance with the findings of an independent review by Professor Percy Allan AM which considered feedback from retailers, employees and shoppers. NRA will update...
The retail sector is showing signs of recovery after a relatively flat year. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) trade...
The retail sector is showing signs of recovery after a relatively flat year. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) trade figures released Thursday have revealed a 0.3 per cent increase in June to $26.15 billion seasonally adjusted. Retail sales have now risen for three consecutive months, with June’s higher than the...
Written by Lisa Carter, SAS Group Multinational finance company Goldman Sachs has this week dispelled the ‘retail apocalypse’, and offered...
Written by Lisa Carter, SAS Group Multinational finance company Goldman Sachs has this week dispelled the ‘retail apocalypse’, and offered up several reasons physical retail stores can, and will, live on in the increasingly dominant digital landscape. Analyst Matthew Fassler told the US media that many retailers are simply stuck in...
Do you have aging models or end of season stock sitting in a warehouse collecting dust and costing you...
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has today released its retail trade figures for June 2017 which show signs...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has today released its retail trade figures for June 2017 which show signs of a strengthening retail industry, after 12 months of softened growth. According to the ABS, the seasonally adjusted trend rose a slight 0.3 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms from the...
Written by Alex Millman Members will recall from previous news alerts that there are several pieces of legislation amending the...
Written by Alex Millman Members will recall from previous news alerts that there are several pieces of legislation amending the Fair Work Act currently waiting for the attention of the Senate before they can become law. Foremost among these is the Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2017, which aims...
A powerful one-day leadership summit on diversity, talent and economics. Women World Changers (WWC) is the premier, all inclusive, one-day leadership...
A powerful one-day leadership summit on diversity, talent and economics. Women World Changers (WWC) is the premier, all inclusive, one-day leadership summit designed to drive critical dialogue on the impact and economics of women, diversity and culture on business growth. Attended by Australia's top business executives, government and community leaders, WWC...
Last week the National Retail Association bid farewell to our office in Woolloongabba for a new headquarters situated in...
Last week the National Retail Association bid farewell to our office in Woolloongabba for a new headquarters situated in the bustling Inner-Brisbane suburb of Milton. While our old office had served the NRA well, in order for us to continue providing the very best service to our members, we felt...