Welcome Stranger Celebrates over 100 Years in Staff Tenure Welcome Stranger wins ‘Best Gaming Venue CBD’ at 2022 AHA (Vic) State Awards for Excellence At a time when almost a third of our members feel that retaining staff is a challenge for their business, the iconic Welcome Stranger Hotel on Bourke Street is celebrating 110 […]
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AHA (Vic) Members Take Front Seat in Urban List’s ‘Best Pubs in Melbourne 2023’ Guide
Simon Cassar from Urban List has recently published a comprehensive guide of the top pubs to visit in Melbourne for this year, and our members are at the forefront of the list. For many years, pubs have been known as a place to gather with friends, savour a tasty parma, and indulge in some cold […]
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Australia’s best pubs and hotels named on industry’s ‘night of nights’
The ‘best of the best’ in Australian hotels and pubs were honoured at the prestigious Australian Hotels Association National Awards for Excellence on 28 November, 2022. A record 730 VIPs and industry guests – including Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott – gathered for the awards extravaganza, held at Campbell’s Cove, Sydney Harbour for the […]
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Bulletin 27: Forthcoming Public Holidays 2018/19
Members who employ staff under the Hospitality Industry (General) Award 2010 (HIGA 2010) are reminded of the forthcoming public holiday and arrangements under that award. The forthcoming award public holidays for the whole of Victoria are: 2018 Melbourne Cup* Tuesday 6 November Christmas day Tuesday 25 December Boxing Day Wednesday 26 December 2019 New Years Day Tuesday […]
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Bulletin 26: EFTPOS Fraud
Recently, AHA (Vic) was informed of fraudulent activities by customers in member hotels using handheld EFTPOS terminals. This may occur when a handheld terminal is passed by a staff member to a customer to enter their personal identification number (PIN) and the opportunistic customer in fact manually enters a stolen credit card number. After consulting […]
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CONTINUE READINGBulletin 24: 170th Annual General Meeting of the Australian Hotels Association (Victoria)
The 170th Annual General Meeting of the Australian Hotels Association (Victoria) was held Tuesday whereby the elections for Executive Committee office bearers were conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission. In accordance with the provisions of the AHA (Vic) constitution, all positions of the Executive Committee were made vacant and elections were held. The results are as […]
CONTINUE READINGBulletin 25: Employing school persons over school holidays
The hotel industry employs a number of younger students over school holiday periods. State and territory laws regulate the employment of young persons on matters such as minimum age, when work can be performed and prohibition on certain types of work. A young employee in hotels comes under the provisions of the HIGA and the […]
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