When can you legally fire an employee?
Productive and highly-skilled staff are an important part of the smooth running of any organisation, but there are times when certain employees simply do not meet this criteria.
Damien Gooden
Performance reviews
Businesses use a number of different strategies to ensure they meet targets and stick to deadlines, including the use of KPIs – Key Performance Indicators.
Establishing a proactive employment policy
Setting out a detailed employment policy is an important proactive step you can take to prevent employee issues from arising in the workplace.
Recruiting the Right People
Long term labour plans make way for current and immediate needs, and convenient rather than strategic decisions. Here are some tips to recruiting the Right people.
Five Steps to Addressing the Scourge of Presenteeism
Coined in the mid-‘90s by psychologist, Cary Cooper (Paul D. Hooper, Presenteeism, white paper CIDM Corp, 2012), presenteeism is not only more difficult to identify and manage than absenteeism, there is some suggestion that its cost to the economy is far more significant.
Your Guide to Handling Difficult Employee Conversations
Problem employees can arise in your workplace. Whether they are taking long repeated lunches, treating colleagues poorly, or just acting in an unprofessional way, their actions can impact on the overall workplace so it is important to curb that behaviour. Whatever your situation, the following formula works to address all those sticky issues where you expect resistance, in the most professional and constructive way possible.
Reasons for carrying out a staff induction
Carrying out staff inductions is a crucial step in onboarding new employees and integrating them into the workplace. Not only do they provide training and give the employee an understanding of their role and duties, but is also a good opportunity for employees to familiarise themselves with company culture, policies, and procedures. The induction process should ideally start as soon as a recruit accepts a job offer. So why else should you use an onboarding procedure for your new employees?
Avoiding unfair dismissal claims during redundancies
Redundancy payouts can be a large cost to a business that may already be struggling, but there are ways to ease this threat.
Carrying out workplace investigations – what employers need to consider
At some stage, almost all businesses will be faced with a dispute or conflict between employees, or another situation that must be resolved. In some of these situations, employers must investigate in order to make a clear decision on how to resolve the issue. This is an important part of the employer’s role, however, it can also be an area where risk can arise. Here are some important considerations employers should be aware of when doing a workplace investigation.
How to identify and address stress leave?
One of the most common workplace issues in Australia is work-related stress and stress leave. As an employer, how should you be handling this?