Booklet: Company Title Essentials (Chapter 1 – The basics)

Booklet: Company Title Essentials (Chapter 1 – The basics)

Below is Chapter 1 of our 'Company Title Essentials' booklet. To read the other chapters of our booklet, click the links below: Chapter 2 - Purchasing and selling shares in a company title building Chapter 3 - Governance and management Chapter 4 - The role of company...

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Solution brief: Managing leave

Solution brief: Managing leave

A guide for employers. Annual leave What is annual leave? All full-time employees are entitled to at least four weeks of paid annual leave each year. Part time employees are entitled to a proportion of their leave entitlement on a pro rata basis. Casual employees are...

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Solution brief: Draft Disciplinary Policy

Solution brief: Draft Disciplinary Policy

An employer’s guide to managing poor performance and misconduct What is this policy? This policy sets out the way in which we will deal with all disciplinary matters. It ensures that disciplinary matters will be handled fairly and consistently. It helps us to comply...

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Solution brief: Managing Poor Performance and Misconduct

Solution brief: Managing Poor Performance and Misconduct

A guide for employers What is poor performance? Poor performance is a consistent failure on the part of an employee to complete their work to the required standard. It requires managers to look at the quality of the work being done by the employee. It could involve...

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Solution brief: Performance Management and Termination

Solution brief: Performance Management and Termination

A guide for employers Termination during the qualifying period The basics Employees have a ‘qualifying period’ that lasts for the first six months of their employment. If they are dismissed in this period, they cannot make an unfair dismissal claim. Employees who are...

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Solution Brief: Appearing Before the Fair Work Commission

Solution Brief: Appearing Before the Fair Work Commission

A guide for employers. What is the Fair Work Commission? The Fair Work Commission is a workplace relations tribunal. While it has many functions, its key responsibility as far as employers are concerned is its ability to hear and adjudicate disputes between employers...

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Navigating non-disparagement clauses: A guide for employees

Navigating non-disparagement clauses: A guide for employees

When your employment ends badly, there’s a great temptation to bad mouth your employer on as many social media platforms as possible.  Regardless of the correctness of your posts, be aware you may have signed away your right to ‘fair comment’ or ‘free speech’. In the...

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​​“All reasonable steps” – Sexual harassment and an employer’s liability​

​​“All reasonable steps” – Sexual harassment and an employer’s liability​

While it is well understood that sexual harassment in the workplace is inappropriate and against the law in Australia, amendments to the Fair Work Act have imposed a positive obligation on employers to take “all reasonable steps” to prevent harassment. Is this cannot be proven, the you may be held vicariously liable for sexual harassment committed by an employee or agent in connection with the workplace.

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