Recruitment, retention and growth: getting onboarding right

Structured onboarding, a deliberate first 90 days rather than a pile of paperwork, is one of the most overlooked levers for retention, productivity and culture. Organisations that invest in it …

Recruiting for success: how to hire and where to find talent

Recruitment can often seem overly complicated and challenging, even though it’s a vital part of business operations. Hiring the right employees can determine a business’s success or failure. This article …

Eight boxes to tick before you terminate anyone

In our recent webinar, Termination without tears, we asked our participants about their termination process: 56 per cent of attendees had faced, or come close to facing, an unfair dismissal …

Common compliance issues: travel time, allowances, and overtime

Travel time, allowances, and overtime are common compliance blind spots for businesses with mobile or multi-site teams, often because rules get applied inconsistently rather than by design. The article covers …

The $5.3 million payroll error that’s easier to fix than you expect

$5.3 million, 3,600 underpaid workers, 22 businesses in 5 states. These are the staggering figures released today from the Fair Work Ombudsman’s investigation into underpayment across the aged care industry.

Managing team conflict: HR and legal considerations

Managing workplace conflict well means knowing when informal steps are enough and when a formal process becomes necessary, before things escalate into a legal issue. Early, documented conversations can resolve …

Is your termination process ready for an AI-drafted unfair dismissal claim?

A dismissal is unfair if the Fair Work Commission finds it was harsh, unjust or unreasonable – a broad test that considers a range of factors. In practice, it comes …

The pre-employment process: protecting employers and employees from day one

Turns out “we’ll figure out the paperwork later” isn’t really a viable hiring strategy anymore, since job ads, interview small talk, reference checks, and conditional offers can all come back …

Is your business ready for Australia’s AI transparency deadline?

Artificial intelligence is now embedded in how many businesses hire, manage, and serve people. If yours is one of them, a significant compliance deadline is coming that you need to …

Do you know how interest rates affect your business? Take the RBA’s quiz to find out.

Everyone talks about interest rates, but what do they really mean? The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) asked people this question in their most recent public survey and found that …