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Supporting mental health and wellbeing for employees during COVID-19
The transition to and from the workplace and, in some instances, the ongoing requirement to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic has presented many varied mental health and wellbeing challenges. Australian workers have reported: Feeling isolated, lonely, or...
Do you need a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy for your business?
As mandatory COVID-19 vaccination public health orders and re-opening maps are being implemented that exclude staff and customers from a variety of settings across Australia, many of our clients have been asking whether they should implement a COVID-19 Vaccination...
Have you heard about the new “Super Stapling” Legislation?
From 1 November 2021, employers need to comply with the new ‘super stapling’ requirements that will require a change to new employee onboarding processes. What is ‘super stapling’? Under the “super stapling” reforms, when a person moves jobs their existing...
The Elephant in the Room …. Annualised Salary Changes?
As businesses have needed to focus on the ongoing impacts of the COVID pandemic, dealing with the Fair Work annualised salary arrangement requirements may well have been inadvertently ignored by many employers. As a reminder, the Fair Work Commission handed down...
Remote Working and Maintaining High Employee Performance “Part 3” – Performance Management and the Virtual Disciplinary Meeting
In our final article on remote working and maintaining high employee performance, we look at the considerations for holding a virtual disciplinary meeting. In essence, the same principles apply to an online disciplinary meeting as to one that is conducted in person....
Remote Working and Maintaining High Employee Performance “Part 2” – Performance Management and the Virtual Performance Review
In our last newsletter, we looked at some tips to establish the foundations required for high levels of performance where employees work involves working remotely or in a hybrid work model. This week we discuss the topic of virtual performance review. When properly...
Remote Working and Maintaining High Employee Performance: “Part 1” – The Foundations
As Australia reaches its vaccine targets and employees start to return to their workplaces one thing that is very clear is many employees wish to retain the flexibility and autonomy they achieved whilst working at home. For many businesses, this may mean a transition...
Deadline reminder for conversion of eligible casual employees to permanent employees “casual conversion”
Did you know that provisions in the Fair Work Act for casuals were recently amended? All Australian businesses employing 15 or more employees were given to 27th September 2021 to assess whether casual employees who commenced prior to 27th March 2021 are eligible for...
Directors’ duties under WHS laws
A PCBU (Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking) has a duty under WHS laws to eliminate risks to health and safety of workers and other persons so far as is reasonably practicable. If it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate risks, they must be minimised so...