A recent decision by the Federal Court has significant impacts on how personal leave is managed within businesses.. The decision basically has three significant impacts: An employee is entitled to be paid according to their “working day: – the ordinary hours they would normally work on the day taken off for personal leave. This means […]
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Over the last week, we have had a number of clients call us requesting information about the upcoming run of public holidays. To assist you, we have put together the following information: What days are treated as public holidays? The period between Friday 19 April 2019 to Friday 26 April 2019 contains a significant number
There’s just so many public holidays! Read More »
This week is the tenth anniversary of when People Smartz was registered as a company. It’s been an exciting ride, in that time People Smartz has assisted just under 1100 businesses of various sizes with the management of their most valuable resource – their people! We are very proud of our achievements and are very
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Family and Domestic Violence leave terms have now been incorporated into all Modern Awards (from 1 August 2018). What is it Family and Domestic Violence Leave? Employees can take this leave to deal with the impact of Family and Domestic Violence and it is impractical to do so outside of their ordinary hours of work.
New Employee Entitlement – Family and Domestic Violence Leave Read More »
Back in July 2013, we posted an article warning about the dangers of HR Consultancies (or Workplace Advisory Companies) making misleading and inappropriate claims regarding their ability to “guarantee” compliance. You can read this article here – Industrial Relations and Workplace Health and Safety – Your Obligations Belong to You The same HR Consultancies we were
Workplace Advisory Companies – Action Finally Read More »
On an almost daily basis we have been seeing blog articles, journals and all sorts of reports reporting the death of performance management. But read into the articles and we see that the story is much, much different. The headlines are good one’s – designed to pull you in and get you reading the story.
Performance Management is Dead? Really? Read More »
It is a fact of life that if a person thinks they are being undervalued (for example underpaying staff), they will disengage from the relationship involved (sometimes it is the perception, not a real thing but effectively it is the same thing). At People Smartz, as Human Resources Specialist to Business, we get many queries
Underpaying Staff – One way to guarantee your employees will disengage Read More »
In Australia, many consider Human Resources Management as being all about “compliance” or “recruiting”. While these are important elements of Human Resources, the management of people has a much greater effect on a business. Compliance is the “base” on which employment is developed. It provides the minimum requirements for employing people and nothing more. Move
Sometimes its not about compliance – its about building your business Read More »
The Fair Work Act 2009 contains an item called the “Fair Dismissal Code for Small Business”. It can be used by small businesses to file an objection that the Commission does not have Unfair Dismissal jurisdiction. But the numbers tells us, that it is underused. Could this be because small business owners don’t know about
Is Small Business Doing Enough to Prevent Unfair Dismissal Claims? Read More »
Yes it nearing the end of the year. Time for your Christmas Parties. We are entering party season – a great time to unwind, rub shoulders with workmates etc. This can be a fun time! But Christmas Parties have a very serious side as many of these antics lead to “regrets” after. Recent research in Australia
Office Christmas Parties – Be Prepared! Read More »
