How to Resolve Conflicts in the Workplace: A Practical Guide for Managers
Workplace conflict is one of those things every manager deals with eventually, whether it’s two team members who just rub each other the wrong way or a disagreement over how a task should be handled. Left alone, it rarely resolves itself. It tends to grow, pulling in other team members and quietly chipping away at […]
What Is a Genuine Redundancy? A Guide for Australian Employers
As a small-to-medium business owner in Australia, redundancy is one of those decisions you hope you never have to make, but at some point, many businesses do. Maybe the work has changed, a role has become unnecessary, your business needs to improve efficiency, or you need to restructure to stay viable. Whatever the reason, getting […]
Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace for SMEs
As a small-to-medium business owner in Australia, you wear more hats than you can count. You are the financial controller, the operations director, the marketing team and, more often than not, the default human resources manager. You work tirelessly to build a business that is profitable, compliant and safe. When we talk about workplace safety, […]
Avoiding Stress Claims
Over the past few months we have observed a significant rise in ‘stress claims’. Under the relevant workers compensation legislation in each State, workers have the freedom to lodge a workers’ compensation claim if work can be established as a significant contributing factor to a mental health condition. Of particular interest is the number of […]
Developing handy employment and liability insurance products
Over the past 12 months, Human Outsource has been working with Nexus Risk Services (www.nexusrisk.com.au) to develop a suite of insurance products that protect businesses from employment-related liability claims. As you probably all know, claims made by workers against organisations (including their officers and directors) is on the rise, so it is good to have […]
COVID-19 (Coronavirus): Free advice to SMEs
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has created unprecedented business disruption. For businesses that have either had to close (due to government mandated directives) or businesses that have experienced a significant downturn in trading conditions, measures will undoubtedly now need to be taken to effectively manage your workforce. Different measures to consider include: When implementing these types […]
About standing workers down amid the COVID-19 pandemic
As a consequence of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) a number of our clients have been impacted in different ways. In trying to manage these impacts we have had several clients contact us regarding standing workers down without pay. The stand down provisions specified in the Fair Work Act, 2009 do not give employers a blanket right […]
Minimum Wage to Increase by 3% from 1 July 2019
The Fair Work Commission has announced a 3% increase to minimum wages. The new national minimum wage will be $740.80 per week ($19.49/hr). The increase applies from the first full pay period starting on or after 1 July 2019. The increase will also apply to wage structures within each Modern Award. As a consequence of […]
Employment Contracts for SMEs
January 2019 has already been a very busy month for Human Outsource and one of the things we have been busy doing is providing guidance to several SMEs on the implementation of employment contracts. While there is no law that specifies the requirement for a written employment contract, it is good practice to have them […]
New WHS Enforcement Policy Released in QLD
Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Queensland released a new Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Policy in December 2018. https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/170423/compliance-monitoring-enforcement-policy.pdf Here is what you need to know: 1. WHSQ will identify priority safety risks. Types of risks identified may include hazardous tasks such as ‘Working from Height’, by way of example. 2. Inspectors at WHSQ will have […]
