HR News & Insights
Setting Company Values in the Modern Workplace
After 30 years in HR, I’ve seen company values become little more than corporate wallpaper. Real alignment comes from passion, not posters.
Setting up a Health Safety Committee
Do you need a health safety committee? If the answer is YES< then how do you start? What is needed to get one up and running? Find our more in our recent post on Setting up a Health Safety Committee
WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE – PRIVACY MATTERS!
It’s common practice to have workplace cameras, the monitoring of emails or website access and GPS location monitors for truck drivers, but are you across what you can and can’t actually do in relation to your employees privacy?
THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY AND THE HOLIDAY PERIOD
It’s that time of the year , Melbourne Cup is here and if you haven’t booked a venue for the office Christmas party, you have now realised that the venue will be at the local bowling club again for barefoot bowls as everything else is booked out! Enough of the big issues, what are the other items you need to take care of for your team
The cost of losing your employees
Harassment, bullying, discrimination, vilification and let’s not forget, victimisation! These words are often used in the workplace to describe unfair or unreasonable behaviour by either an employer or employee. So does your business have an appropriate policy in place to prevent this?
Breathe and Your Hired! - A Modern Day Recruitment Strategy
Breathe and your Hired! There has got to be a better recruitment strategy. Find out how to escape the cycle of hiring the masses only to have them exit at almost the same rate.
Picking the wrong bloke, Again!
No, I’m not talking about dating (although not that dissimilar), I’m talking about you making another botch up of hiring someone who has not worked out. This is such a common complaint, so what can you do to fix this?
Dignity - The Lost Soft Skill
The preservation of a person’s dignity is a lost skill on modern day methods of management. It’s a selfless act, it gets no credit, isn’t seen and doesn’t benefit your digital profile.
Ready for the Fair Work Ombudsman Compliance Blitz - One Touch Panic?
No more cash paid employees, no more weird additional payments and no more sham contractors. One touch payroll means a employment contracts.
What to consider when changing jobs
If you have been employed for about 20 odd years, you are bound to have had a least one Manager that is an ‘idiot’. So when do you stay and when do you jump ship?
4 steps you need to take before you terminate an employee
“Can’t I just sack them?” This is the most common phrase I hear as I go about my employment consultancy business. So under what circumstances can you sack someone?
Is an Employment Handbook a Waste of Time or Money? No Dust it Off!
Is your employee handbook sitting in the back office somewhere, collecting dust? If we agree our employees are our best asset, then it’s time that we revisited why our employee handbook is so important.
Better off Overall Test (BOOT) - what is it and why should you care?
Does your business need a BOOT? A better off overall test, I mean. if you are not sure where your business is placed when reviewing modern awards, then you need a BOOT.