Pre-Employment Functional Assessments
Pre-employment Functional Assessments offer a cost-effective way to evaluate if candidates can safely perform job tasks based on their physical and medical capacity.
People Risks
Successfully managing business risks is more important than ever before. Businesses are faced with numerous different risks, yet anticipating and effectively managing your people risks are critical to building trust inside and outside of your business. Given people risks can have significant financial, reputational and legal implications, risk management efforts are crucial for businesses. What are the common people risks Australian businesses should be aware of and address?
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Workplace Bullying or Performance Management?
Performance management can be a positive experience when handled correctly. The process is never easy & even good organisations may find a staff member disagrees with the assessment, genuinely believing they are being bullied while being performance managed. What can you do & can I get help?
Christmas Parties & COVID-19
Work Christmas parties will be very different this year due to COVID-19 restrictions. Safety precautions include social distancing, venue capacity & the way people are expected to interact. Despite continued relaxations, it is important for businesses to know what they can & can not do as well as the importance of reiterating your Code of Conduct policy.
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Stage 2 Minimum Wages Increased
The Fair Work Commission announced a 1.75% increase to minimum wages, equating to a $13 per week increase in the national minimum wage. Following Stage 1 Award increases for essential service workers in July, new minimum award rates start for industries like manufacturing & construction commence 1 November 2020.
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JobKeeper 2.0
On the 21st of July 2020, the Australian Federal Government announced the extension of the JobKeeper scheme for a further six months until 28 March 2021. There are two separate extension periods & for each extension period an additional actual decline in turnover test applies & the JobKeeper payment differs.
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