Staff Consultation Tool Staff Consultation Tool: Use this tool to guide and record your consultation with your staff.
Client Email Notification – Customise this email wording to your business and send out to your clients before they come on to your premises.
Simple Steps to Stop the Spread
Guide: How to Set Up a Workstation at Home: This checklist provides guidance for workers and PersonsConducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBUs to be referred to as ‘employers’). Please note, the following considerations should be seen as minimum requirements only. Employers may have more detailed working from home guidance in their organisations that should be used in conjunction with this checklist.
Working From Home Checklist: This checklist provides guidance for workers and Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBUs to be referred to as ‘employers’). Please note, the considerations in this checklist should be seen as minimum requirements only. Employers may have more detailed working from home guidance in their organisations that should be used in conjunction with this checklist.
Industry Specific Information: Access Safe Work Australia’s information hub on COVID-19 work, health and safety for more detailed information relating specifically to your industry
10 COVID-19 Safe Workplace Principles
Take Charge of the Change – Understanding the COVID-19 Safe Workplace Principles
Take Charge of the Change – How to start consulting with your staff immediately
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Written by: Jackie Strachan, CEO & HR Strategist – HR Tactics
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EXPLAINED: A new requirement to “Offer” casual conversion [if have >=15 employees] This change relates specifically to employers with 15 or more employees so if you have less than 15 employees then you just need to be ready to assess requests from your casuals. So this change passed by Parliament in March 2021 relates to a new entitlement being added to the National
EXPLAINED: New casual loading offset provision to avoid double dipping This is the biggest relief for business owners! so, there’s a new casual loading offset provision that has been introduced to ensure wrongly classified casuals cannot double dip and be back paid entitlements as a permanent employee in addition to keeping the casual loading they’ve already been paid. We now
EXPLAINED: The casual employment information statement (the CEIS) The amendment act introduces a Casual Employment Information Statement (CEIS) which is to be given to all casuals. The CEIS can be downloaded from the fair work ombudsman website in word or PDF version. The CEIS has information about: The definition of a casual employee When an
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