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Courts will be given new powers to stop and penalise employers that break work agreements covering a range of areas including redundancies, annual leave, rostering and child care.

The federal government is due to introduce its Fair Work Bill to usher in a new Workplace relations system into parliament in the next few weeks after state and territory ministers were briefed on the draft on Wednesday.

Managing Director of Workforce Guardian, Adrienne Unkovich talks to BNet's Phil Dobbie about the New Fair Work laws and how they will affect small business.

Business owners take all possible steps to ensure customer satisfaction. One of the most successful and recommended strategies in this regard is to begin with a virtual receptionist service. This service brings in extra representatives for a business and eases the lives of the customers. When the customers have questions or queries to be answered or any problems to be solved, they try to reach the authoritative body telephonically and it is not uncommon for them for not having to been able to do so. This is where the need for virtual receptionists comes in. Virtual receptionists are basically persons who work for the customer support but do not work from the office or any specified location.

Australians may have voted against Work Choices but they don't want a return to the bad old days of unions "monstering" employers, the federal coalition says.

Roniece Dawson-Bruce the company's Human Resource Manager can't believe what a difference Workforce Guardian has made to her day-to-day Work. Not only has the online resource increased her productivity it has dramatically reduced the stress of her job. "Workforce Guardian is a streamlined, easy to use resource that delivers compliant results quickly and efficiently."

A security guard at last year's Australian Open tennis championship who was paid just $1.26 an hour for more than 150 hours of work has successfully sued his former employers for more than $115,000.

Unions have warned the national minimum wage-setting body - the Fair Pay Commission - not to leave the low paid out in the cold when it hands down its wage decision in July.