by | Apr 6, 2021 | Workplace Articles, Workplace health and Safety
Back in September 2012, we wrote the below article. 8 years on what has changed. Not much in reality other than the voice against workplace bully and harassment has only got stronger and the stand against the treatment of women louder. The state of bullying at work in...
by | Nov 2, 2017 | Employment Relations, Events
Christmas is coming, let’s have a party! Christmas Party Past Maybe you can remember a particularly good staff Christmas Party of yesteryear. If you believe all the stories people tell you, they could be anything from deadly dull to completely wild and abandoned! ...
by | Jun 8, 2016 | Employment Relations, Legislation Updates, Workplace Articles
Risk Management – the importance of training about workplace issues such as Diversity, Bullying and Sexual Harassment Risk management or risk assessment has always been in vogue in the business world but recently it has seen a major shift in its meanings and...
by | May 3, 2016 | Employment Relations, Offers and Packages, Performance Management, Workplace health and Safety
Workplace Bullying – The impact beyond the workplace Most people might not agree with the phenomenon of “workplace bullying” or the fact that it actually exists, but the truth is that it not only exists, but it also results in the creation of an unhealthy...
by | Mar 15, 2016 | Workplace Articles
TOP 10 TIPS: Creating Emotional Resilience Reflect on your habitual mindsets. Pay attention to your habits of thought and your beliefs about who you are, how life “is”, and what challenges and setbacks mean. Remind yourself why you are doing what you’re doing. Find...
by | Dec 13, 2015 | Employment Relations, Performance Management, Workplace Articles
Employee Engagement in a workplace for 2016 What proves one company more successful than others? Better strategies, products, technologies, better cost structure or perhaps services? Certainly, in part all of these contribute to successful performance, but all of them...
by | Nov 26, 2015 | Performance Management, Workplace Articles
Behaviour at a Work Christmas party – the Do’s and Don’ts for a successful event Christmas parties are great fun and most of us are looking forward to them in a few more days to come. But it cut’s both ways when it comes to work Christmas...
by | 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 | Mar 24, 2015 | Employment Relations
Everybody needs a little respect. You know when you have respect. You know when you don’t. But what is respect really? And, how is respect demonstrated at work? You can demonstrate respect with simple, yet powerful actions. These ideas will help you avoid...
by dev@threepeas.co | Nov 10, 2014 | Workplace Articles
Why you should NEVER fail to act on a bullying complaint As an employer, you must take reasonable care to avoid the risk that an employee will suffer a psychiatric injury as a result of their working environment, e.g. due to bullying or stress. This duty arises under...
by | Nov 5, 2014 | Workplace Articles
Don’t expect harassment victims to complain, encourage bystanders to intervene (sourced from HR Daily 05 November 2014) Employers can’t expect workers who have experienced sexual harassment to make formal reports, but they can encourage...
by | Sep 10, 2014 | Employment Relations
Tears in the office Tears in the office can be awkward but since we’re all human it’s something everyone is going to come across in the course of their careers. Facebook Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg, revealed in her book this year that not only...
by | Aug 26, 2014 | Offers and Packages
ACCOUNTANTS Do you often get requests from you client base for Human Resource Support or field questions relating to employee matters that you cannot answer and you don’t know where to send them to find expert support? At Fresh HR Insights we work closely...
by | Aug 5, 2014 | Employment Relations
Five big lessons from the anti-bullying tribunal In some of the key cases handed down in the anti-bullying jurisdiction so far, the Fair Work Commission has provided useful guidance on what constitutes “repeated unreasonable behaviour”, but also raised...
by | Jun 1, 2014 | Legislation Updates
Back in March 2013 I wrote about the Proposed Bullying in the Workplace Laws. Now that these are in place it is a good time to bring them back into topic. I have seen an increase across a couple of my clients when it has come to claims of workplace bullying. I have...
by | May 19, 2014 | Legislation Updates
First decided case under new bullying laws …in favour of the Employer In the first decided application under the new bullying jurisdiction, the Fair Work Commission has rejected a manager’s claim that she was bullied by two of her subordinates. This...
