by Paulette | Nov 16, 2023 | Employment Relations, Fair Work Ombudsman News, Human Resource, Legislation Updates
On August 9th 2023, the Australian Human Rights Commission released Guidelines for Complying with the Positive Duty under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth). These guidelines marked a shift towards proactive measures, urging businesses to respond to incidents and...
by | May 7, 2019 | Employment Relations, Topics of Conversation
2019 Look At The Trend Of Political Opinion In The Workplace Politics stands as one of the most sensitive and widely debated topics all over the world. From simple dinner among families to a business meeting among friends,...
by | Mar 25, 2019 | Workplace Articles
Communication technology reshapes the world that we work in every day. Handheld wireless devices give us the ability to email, browse phone, use our calendar, and access corporate databases and the opportunity to work out of the office. All of these workplace...
by | Aug 21, 2018 | Award Provisions, Employment Relations
“Regular” casual employees covered by an award have a right to request that their employment be converted to permanent employment, following decisions by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) last year. A Full Bench of the FWC has now made some changes and clarified a few...
by | May 12, 2018 | Employment Relations, Fair Work Ombudsman News
Are you a franchisor? Or a franchisee? Does your company have subsidiaries? If you answered “yes” you are in the sights of new laws which commenced on Friday 15 September. Even if you answered “no”, you should keep reading, as the higher penalties relating to payslip...
by | Jun 28, 2017 | Award Provisions
It is extremely important for employers to be aware of the national minimum wage rate. By law employees must be paid the minimum wage for difference kinds of jobs under relevant Industry Awards. It is okay to pay employees more than the minimum wage, however some...
by admin2022 | Nov 20, 2015 | Employment Relations, News letters, Workplace Articles
Embracing diversity in the 21st Century in the workplace Globalisation has it footprints all over our lives and workplace is not any different in this dimension. The businesses today are more diverse and pluralistic than any other time in history. From clients to...
by admin2022 | Nov 18, 2015 | Employment Relations, Offers and Packages, Performance Management
THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING WORKPLACE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Workplace policy is an organized set of rules, regulations, and principles drafted to direct the managers and the staff that how they would behave in the workplace. They may be beneficial in many ways...
by admin2022 | Jan 25, 2015 | Workplace health and Safety
Workplace Health and Safety Fresh HR Insights is delighted to announce the formation of a strategic partnership with Emilio Barlin who has joined us as our Workplace Health and Safety Consultant. Workplace Health and safety is a big topic and we know...
by dev@threepeas.co | Dec 30, 2014 | Performance Management
Things you can do to manage poor performance 5 things you can do now to manage poor performance in your workplace fairly and lawfully Poor-performing employees can cost your business dearly in lost productivity, time and wages. But they don’t have to....
by dev@threepeas.co | Nov 17, 2014 | Workplace Articles
Another contractor prosecuted by Fair Work for “sham contracting” ‚Äö√Ѭ∂How to avoid being the next explained McKays Solicitors released their November 2014 Law Talk about Sham Contracting – Sham Contracting According to McKays the how to...
by dev@threepeas.co | Nov 14, 2014 | Recruitment, Uncategorized
Best practice guidelines for recruitment and selection Sourced from Human Rights Commission – November 2014 Recruiting and selecting the most appropriate person for the job is a complex task which requires trained staff who are aware of antidiscrimination...
by | Oct 7, 2014 | Offers and Packages
Starting a business is a big achievement for many, but maintaining one is the larger challenge. There are many standard challenges that face every business whether they are large or small. These include things like hiring the right people, and maintaining the...
by admin2022 | Oct 1, 2014 | Award Provisions
Leave Loading – what is it ?? The 17.5% leave loading is a wonderful historic legacy from the glory days of the Labour movement. The theory is when you are on holiday, you don’t have the opportunity to work overtime or do other things that might give you a...
by admin2022 | Sep 22, 2014 | Workplace Training
Welcome to Fresh HR Insights Online Training Units There are two options with all our Training Units. Tier One – Unit and Assessments only $195 + GST (no marking of the assessments) Tier Two – Unit, Assessments and the assessments are marked by one of our...
by | Sep 11, 2014 | Employment Relations
Can you secretly tape employee meetings? I posed this question on Facebook recently and one would think the answer is no BUT like everything in the employee and employer relationship there are twists and turns to be aware of. McKays Solicitors did a super information...
