A member of our Health & Safety team, Annette Alexander, providesuseful informationon health precautions that can be taken at work to protect employees from bushfire smoke.
Can an employee work elsewhere, in a second job, when they are on a period of leave with us?
Whilst a good induction process ensures an employees can physically find their way around the office, onboarding sets a new worker up for success. Find out why onboarding is the new kid on the block in our latest blog post.
Why is the annual performance review so unpopular?
One of our HR experts, Lynne, Bennington, looks at a recent investigationinto fairness in the workplace.
We would like to temporarily run a night shift for three days and wanted to know how this should be paid. Our employees are usually day workers and will work day work on Monday and Tuesday, but on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday they will work night shifts. We operate under the Manufacturing award. How would employees who work on this shift be paid?
Our company policy allows us to pay annual leave to an employee if they run out of sick leave, even though the employee has not requested annual leave. We want to change the policy to include that the company will direct the employees to take annual leave, if they have not provided evidence for personal leave. Can we do this?
2020 is a year like no other and it has many employers asking the question, “should the performance review be cancelled with the rest of 2020?”. Our latest blog postexplores some alternatives to the traditional end of year review.
How much information can an employer legally request from job applicants about their mental health during recruitment?
Our business is covered by three different modern awards and we have heard about some recent changes regarding annual leave. What has changed?
