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One of the essential ingredients to ensuring your brilliant workforce feels appreciated and valued is ensuring they’re paid fairly, accurately and on time.

Parental leave is unpaid leave available to an employee for the birth or adoption of a child. When an employee or their partner falls pregnant, or they choose to adopt, it is a busy time for both expecting parents and employers.

Your employee handbook isn’t just a list of stodgy rules – it’s a dynamic embodiment of your organisation’s values and future. Shape it in the right way, and you’ll be inspiring new hires and supporting your existing team in the ways that matter.

Conflict in the workplace can be minimised but can also be inevitable, so having the right approach to employee relations really is crucial.

A workplace investigation can be a challenging experience, and by its very nature often requires delving into sensitive matters with employees. Employees might hold valid concerns that the process could affect their reputation, their career or their standing with colleagues if the matter isn’t handled correctly.

Few leaders go into the employee termination process lightly, knowing that it’s a significant step. Will you be able to handle the process fairly, correctly and lawfully and without unwanted consequences? Given our experience in employment relations, we wanted to put together a quick guide to six questions you should ask before terminating any employee.

Barring a few specific and clear reasons for instant dismissal, the first instinct in dealing with difficult employees shouldn’t be to fire them. First, it’s important to look a little closer at what might be going on both with the employee and with the wider organisation. Here are five important steps to take first with any problem employee.

A great employee can provide value that extends far beyond their role, and when someone like this resigns it can cause ripple effects through an organisation. Workplace morale can suffer and productivity can take a hit – not to mention the cost of recruiting and hiring someone of the same calibre. So why do great employees quit?

Remote and hybrid working is a reality for many organisations these days, due both to COVID-19 and to growing employee demand. In fact, Buffer’s 2021 State of Remote Work report indicates that 97.6% of employees want to work remotely at least some of the time for the rest of their career. As such, having solid remote strategies in place will make all the difference for most organisations. These seven key strategies can truly make or break your remote employee onboarding process.

An engaged workplace, where employees are stimulated and motivated, is proven to lead to greater business success with higher profitability and productivity, lower absenteeism, lower staff turnover and even higher customer loyalty. One of the key ways of encouraging employee engagement is to offer feedback and support through a structured performance review process.

Outsourcing your HR might seem like the last thing you’d consider when running a small business, when in fact it can make excellent business sense. While your first instinct may be to keep things contained in-house, outsourcing can give you access to extensive experience, accurate advice, flexible support and lower HR costs to boot. So when might you consider making the move to outsourced HR support?

Managers typically land their roles for a very good reason; because they’re highly skilled at what they do. A manager makes strategic decisions, assigns tasks to the most suitable team members and takes responsibility to ensure objectives are achieved. But as you’ll know – there’s a whole lot more to true leadership than just ticking off a bunch of KPIs.

Engaged employees mean lower absenteeism and turnover, and increased productivity. What's not to love?

Sometimes when you start scratching beneath the surface to get to the bottom of a performance issues you are faced with a bucket load of emotions and revelations about your employee’s personal life you were not prepared for or expecting.

2020 has certainly seen more than its fair share of uncertainty. It's important to create and maintain a mentally healthy workplace in order to support employees who suffer from anxiety whilst in the work environment.

Issues occur in workplaces with some regularity, and whether it be a dispute between employees, a breach of procedure, a case of misconduct or something else altogether, it needs to be dealt with effectively and efficiently. But how?

Modern Award minimum wage review effective from 1 July 2020

On the 1st December, rates of pay for some employees under the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (SCHADS Award) increased. Have you made the necessary changes to payroll for your team?

Christmas is a happy and festive time, but end of year parties can also be a minefield for employers, with the risk of over-indulgence and inappropriate behaviour. So, how can you prevent and manage incidents?

For businesses in the community care sector, bringing the right people into your organisation is critical. So, what can you do to ensure you find the right candidates, and the right candidates find you?

As well as potentially bringing criminal charges to your door, underpaying employees can have a significant business impact. So, how can you prevent your business from becoming the subject of a scandal?

Join our four part webinar series, and learn how a great HR strategy will deliver real results for your business.

It's been described as the biggest change for businesses since the introduction of GST. So, here's everything you need to know about single touch payroll.

Everything you need to know about the 2019 minimum wage review, in a bitesize chunk!

Mix social media with a disgruntled employee, and you can find yourself facing a stream of HR challenges.

Stuck in a rut with the same old interview questions? Ask these four pearlers, and see your interview quality rise immediately.