Most Newsagencies require general business insurance and NANA strongly recommends that Newsagents seek the advice of experienced insurance brokers when considering who they should place their insurance with. NANA has been monitoring the costs of business insurance premiums from a range of brokers. In some instances, the premium and brokerage charges being offered are considerably more […]

The new wage rates for the General Retail Industry Award 2010, the Award which covers retail Newsagencies (including for drivers) are available for download from the Members area of the NANA website or by contacting the NANA office on 1300 113 044 or email to nana@nana.com.au. The new rates will apply from the first full pay period […]

The wage rates schedules for the 1 July 2019 wage increase released last week has been updated. There were a few minor errors which have been corrected and the corrected version is available for download from NANA’s web site at www.nana.com.au. NANA stresses that the corrections were minor in nature and as the operative date is still […]

Coinciding with the general 3.0% increase to Award rates of pay are some adjustments to Sunday rates for full time, part time and casual employees, including shift-workers (those employees commencing before 5:00AM).

Recent press reports coming out of the ATO may have given the impression that from 1 July 2019 employers will no longer be able to pay employees in cash. This is definitely not the case.

NANA has received a number of calls from Members checking the advice received from their NSW Lotteries Business Development Manager (BDM) about different issues but in particular the new Omni-Channel program. 

News Corp announced its intention to make major changes to its distribution system last year. Since then they have dropped the intention, at least for the immediate future, to make changes to areas outside of metropolitan Sydney. 

NANA has completed its review of the recent annual wage review decision which resulted in a 3% increase to the General Retail Industry Award 2010 wages effective from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2019. In addition to the increases to wages, some allowances have also changed. The increase to base […]

Award rates for trainees undertaking formal training arrangements have also increased. NANA has detected some issues with the draft determinations released by the Fair Work Commission and is working with the Commission to resolve what NANA believes to be some incorrect data. We expect to be able to release the updated trainee information this time […]

When the NSW Container Deposit Scheme (CDS) was implemented on 1 December 2017, all first suppliers of beverages into NSW became obligated to register their eligible containers with the scheme.