National Baking Industry Association

May 27

DON’T PANIC!

The news has been very full lately of a new threat to business that is not related to COVID-19. As welcome as different news may be, this development has caused a lot of undue concern and panic among small businesses across Australia, and this has included our members. Before we... read more →

May 15

Can Employees Request To Take Annual Leave While On Jobkeeper?

The Fair Work Commission has released its first decision detailing what it considered to be an unreasonable refusal to take annual leave under the recent changes to the Fair Work Act. Those changes include the ability for an employer to request an employee to take annual leave and that the employee can... read more →

Apr 17

SPAM Email Sent From NBIA Account

On Friday 17 March 2020, a National Baking Industry Association email address was hacked and used as part of a phishing scam. If you have received an email from this account with the subject IMPORTANT: COVID-19 important update, please ignore and delete it. The email will attempt to scam you... read more →

Mar 27

Changes to Long Service Leave

In light of the current economic hardship being experienced by all due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Industrial Court of Queensland has relaxed the criteria for Applications for payment instead of taking long service leave (form 13). If an employee requests their long service leave as a gross payment, the... read more →

Mar 20

Update to all BITA Apprentices and their Employers

Dear BITA Apprentices and Employers, Following the advice of the Federal and Queensland governments, Baking Industry Training Australia has decided to continue all block release classes at the Morningside facility. Trainers, where possible, will also continue to assess students at their place of work. 20-24 April – Specialty Flour/Sweet Yeast... read more →

Mar 11

COVID19 – Coronavirus By Any Other Name…

Now that we all have enough toilet paper to last us through to the Rapture, hopefully we can all sit and relax and get some serious planning done for the worst possible case scenario. What is the "Worst Case Scenario"? The Biosecurity Act 2015 grants the Federal Health Minister virtually unlimited... read more →

Dec 09

NBIA Christmas Hours and Office Closure

The offices for the National Baking Industry Association and Baking Industry Training Australia will be closed over the Christmas and New Year period. The office closure will commence at 5pm on 24th December 2019 and both the NBIA and BITA will re-open on 9am on Thursday, 2nd January 2020. Please submit all... read more →

May 27

Are You Ready For Nutritional Labelling?

The Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code of labelling and compositional standards for bread and bakery products can be complex and confusing. However, the NBIA now offers members free assistance with compliance of Nutritional Labelling. We can now verify that your labels are compliant or generate a legally compliant label... read more →

National Baking Industry Association - Australia

21 hours ago

The Fair Work Commission has handed down its decision increasing Award rates by 2.5%.

Following on from the decision in 2020, they have delayed some Awards due to the effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic on our economy. For this reason, whilst some of our Awards will increase from July, others will increase later in the year.

The Awards and the date of their increase are as follows:
✅ From first full pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2021:
Food, Beverage and Tobacco Manufacturing Industry Award 2020
Clerks - Private Sector Award 2020
Fast Food Industry Award 2020

✅ From the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 September 2021
General Retail Industry Award 2020

✅ From the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 November 2021
Restaurant Industry Award 2020

If you are covered by an Award not specifically mentioned above, please contact our IR Hotline on 1300 557 022 or email ir@nbia.org.au for information regarding your specific Award. Revised Schedules will be forwarded to members in the weeks prior to each increase. ... See MoreSee Less

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