Sick Leave Snapshot for SMEs
Are you unsure of when it is appropriate or innappropriate to give your employees unexpected leave? Discover when, for how long and what evidence is required for permitting sick leave with your...
View ArticleWhat is Workplace Bullying?
Workplace bullying can have a profound effect on all aspects of a person’s health as well as their work and family life. It also has significant flow on effects for the community and the economy, with...
View ArticleRedundancies – Consult with Your Employees!
What is ‘Redundancy’ and how do you as an employer manage the redundancy process in your business or workplace? Redundancy can be described as the situation where an employer no longer requires an...
View ArticleHow to Find the Right Employee – Interview Techniques
There are several interview types including: one on one, panel format, telephone, technical/competence-based or hypothetical. Some businesses use psychometric testing, however, this can be costly as it...
View ArticleHow to Find the Right Employee – The Induction Process
An induction program is an important process for bringing staff into an organisation. It provides an introduction to the working environment and shows the employee where they sit within the...
View ArticleHow to Find the Right Employee – Probation
Probation should be seen as an extension of the recruitment and selection process. It is the period of time when you are testing out the new employee and they are testing you out to ensure the correct...
View ArticleCan I Require My Full Time Employees to Work More than 38 Hours per Week?
An employer cannot ask or tell an employee to work more than the following hours of work in a week, unless the extra hours are reasonable: for full-time employees – 38 hours for other employees – the...
View ArticleIs an Employer Required to Give a Job Description to the Employee?
A job description, also known as a position description or role statement, is a statement that explains a job and the key accountabilities of that job. Although not required, writing a job description,...
View ArticleCan I Make an Employee’s Position Redundant While They are on Parental Leave?
An employee is guaranteed to return to work immediately following a period of parental leave, entitling them to: their pre-parental leave position, or if that position no longer exists, an available...
View ArticleHow Does Personal/Carers Leave Accrue?
The National Employment Standards establish minimum entitlements for permanent employees to receive: paid personal/carer’s leave unpaid carer’s leave paid or unpaid compassionate leave. These forms of...
View ArticleCan An Employee ‘Cash Out’ Accrued Annual Leave?
For employees covered by an award or agreement, cashing out of annual leave is permitted if the award or agreement allows it. Award or agreement-free employees may agree to cash out annual leave at any...
View ArticleNew Bullying In The Workplace Laws
With the new bullying laws coming into effect from the 1st January 2014, is your business ready to defend a claim if required? The laws now allow those who are being bullied to go directly to the Fair...
View ArticleProtecting Your Most Valuable Asset – your people (Part 1)
Don’t you ever wonder what happened to the days when employees worked for one company for life or at least for the better part of their career, when companies treated employees like part of the family...
View ArticleParental Leave and Flexible Working Arrangements Changes
Employees get unpaid parental leave when a new child is born or adopted. Parental leave includes maternity leave (for mums), paternity leave (for dads and partners) and adoption leave as well as other...
View ArticleThe Curse of Sisypus
Do you have days when you feel like you are Sisypus? In Greek mythology, Sisypus was punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat...
View ArticleLearning’s From The 7 Eleven Franchise Scandal
The convenience chain 7-Eleven franchisee employee wage scandal arguably rocked the franchising industry when it was brought to light and continues to have material implications on the franchising...
View ArticleManaging Conflict in the Workplace: How Women Do It?
Workplaces are becoming increasingly more fast-pasted and globalized, which increases the opportunities for professional development, but also increases the likelihood that conflicts will occur within...
View ArticleFranchisee Employee Matters – Matter!
Last year we provided an update regarding the issues the 7-Eleven franchise network’s suffered as a result of the failures of a number of its franchisee’s meeting their employer obligations. These...
View ArticleWorking from Home – The Legal Issues
Australians are loving the greater freedom that working from home offers. With the growing influence of the internet and improvements in technology, its easy to understand why this working arrangement...
View ArticleFranchising & Employee Rights – Be Aware and Prepared!
Fair Work seem to have been very busy over the last few months undertaking audits of various businesses operating across a wide range of industries, as well as commencing investigations and taking...
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