In order to protect your reputation in today’s world of technology and social media, it is important to create a culture within your organisation that encourages employees to raise their grievances in-house without fear of reprimand and without reverting to social media or otherwise venting their grievances into cyberspace.
Protect your reputation as an employer
At JFM Law, we have developed a range of policies and procedures for small to medium sized employers to make this possible and practical. In particular, we have developed a grievance policy which sets out that an employee is to raise any grievances with their manager or direct report before taking it to an external source such as the Fair Work Commission.
We have developed other policies, such as bullying and harassment policies, which cover the use of social media to ensure that it is clear to employees what is expected of them and what steps they can take when they feel they are being mistreated in the workplace.
The benefits of having such policies, provide protection in regard to the following:
- WorkCover inspections;
- Fair Work anti-bullying applications;
- Fair Work unfair dismissal applications; and
- Fair Work general protection (adverse action) applications.
If you are a small to medium sized employer and have any questions about protecting your reputation, or about employees who may have gone rogue, please give us a call on (02) 9199 8597 or email us.
The information contained in this post is current at the date of editing – 08 October 2025.
