Tonight in Let’s Talk Business, the silly season is officially here, and it’s always a time of ups and downs in business.

On the one hand, spending is at a high over this period, on the other, it’s full of public holiday wages, Christmas casuals, and unusual trading hours.

Small business coach Lanna Hill is here to help guide you through the pitfalls of the holidays.

And, Fair Work has come out in support of employers about fair use of sick leave after a wrongful sacking complaint when a person was caught out taking his child to a Wiggles concert while supposedly on sick leave.

So what does that mean for the way you manage you staff? And what’s a reasonable cause to call off work?

Employment and recruitment expert, Andrew Sanders, from Scotford Fennessy, is here to run us through it.

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