The risks of terminating employees
The greatest risk for employers in having to terminate someone’s employment is the employee disputing the termination through one of four methods of claim: Unfair…
Month: August 2020
7 Step Change Management Plan
The most common problem business leaders have when attempting to implement major change across an organisation is that employees are five steps behind them. We’ve…
The Benefits of Hiring Older Workers
Do you discriminate (intentionally or not) against older people when recruiting and promoting? Research by the Human Rights Commission shows that age discrimination is ongoing…
How to Develop a Comprehensive Induction Process
It might come as a surprise to some, but the most likely time for employee dissatisfaction, low productivity, and turnover to occur is during the…
Beware Successful Workplace Psychopaths
The superficially charming, highly ambitious employee (often leader) who pretends to listen attentively while dogmatically doing it their way and treading on whoever to achieve…
Cyberbullying at work
I listened to Monica Lewinsky’s TED talk, which is about public humiliation, cyber bullying, and shame in our digital age. My other major take-away from…
Why every workplace should have a social media policy
More than 70% of businesses have reported having to take disciplinary action against an employee for misuse of social media. The statistic was gathered from…
What Laws Are There Protecting Against Pregnancy Discrimination?
Not for the first time, I had a client call asking for advice around an employee who had recently started with them and just told…
Three Factors of an Enticing Job Offer
One of the biggest challenges for businesses is attracting great people. An enticing job offer to a potential employee has a large impact on your…
5 Essentials of Employee Entitlements
Did you know new business owners can be held accountable for breaches of the Fair Work Act that occurred before they took ownership of an…
