If you have a Zombie Agreement, the 6th December 2023 deadline is looming for having your next plan in place on how you engage your employees. As a refresher, your three options are: 1. Negotiate a new Enterprise Agreement 2. Apply for an extension...
There’s often discussion at work around what is ‘politically correct’ and what is not. This certainly can be a confusing space for employers and employees! While the subject of appropriate behaviour and language at work is a mammoth area to tackle,...
Our amazing little team has gone through a big transformation in the last couple of weeks (big for us anyway!). We've said farewell to Eloise (more on that in a moment) and welcomed 3 new faces. When you consider that we have a small team of 8,...
If you look at the unemployment rate trend line published by the ABS, you’ll see a steady hover between 5 and 5.5% from September 2018 to March 2020; then a spike to 7.5% by June 2020 (we all know what happened there); followed by a rapid plummet...
As we speed our way through the final month of 2022, we'd like to encourage everyone to take a moment to stop and consider the people around us. In workplaces, it seems we are all busy as the stress of getting things done 'before Christmas' becomes...
Be careful when deleting an employee’s roster or application before a proper investigation – it could land you in hot water In an important reminder for employers, in Renee Royall v Aussie Kids Pty Ltd [2022] FWC 2301 (31 August 2022), an...
Poor performance or conduct in employees is not always about skill or intellectual capability, it can also be due to employees being unmotivated or lazy. There are some employees who choose to work only when being looked at closely, and some who...
Most employers have faced the situation at some time of an employee who takes excessive personal (sick) leave. It might be someone who has the uncanny timing of taking a day of personal leave every 4 weeks (which happens to be about the time it...
Can you imagine watching the '22 Birmingham Commonwealth Games if there were no scores; no winners; no medals; no tally board? Just a group of the best athletes in the world at a televised training camp. Who would watch State of Origin if they...
In today's labour- and skill-short market terms like 'attraction' and 'retention' are all the rage. Businesses are looking at what programs, incentives and benefits they can add to their EVP (employee value proposition) so that they keep their good...
You will hear us say it a lot here at Focus HR, employers should always make sure that they have contracts of employment in place. These contracts should not only tell the employee what the terms and conditions of the employment relationship are,...
Feedback. Challenging to give; difficult to receive – even when it is positive we Australians still seem to struggle with giving and receiving feedback! I think a lot of people feel awkward giving positive feedback – maybe because they didn’t get...
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