What types of Australian employment matters can the HR Advice Line help with?

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Modern award interpretation and compliance

  • Award coverage.
  • Classifying employees.
  • Rates of pay, penalties, and loadings and allowances.
  • Apprentices and trainees.
  • Hours of work, rosters, overtime and shift work
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Employment contracts

  • Establishing contracts.
  • Interpreting contracts.
  • Varying contracts.
  • Enforcing contractual obligations.
  • The types of employment.
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Termination and resignation

  • Workplace investigations.
  • Minimum notice and procedural requirements.
  • Employee entitlements upon termination and an employer’s ability to withhold termination payments.
  • Mitigating unfair dismissal and general protections risk.
  • Misconduct and serious misconduct.
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Employee entitlements, National Employment Standards, and related laws

  • Interpretation of the Fair Work Act 2009.
  • Leave entitlements and public holidays.
  • Hours of work.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Redundancy.
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Counselling and disciplinary management

  • Performance management process.
  • Writing and issuing of warnings.
  • Termination after comprehensive performance management.
  • Conduct management.
  • Appropriate disciplinary action.
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Enterprise agreements and bargaining

  • Interpreting enterprise agreements.
  • Benefits and limitations of implementing an enterprise agreement.
  • Explanation of better off overall test.
  • Enterprise bargaining for new or replacement of enterprise agreements.
  • Renewal or cancellation of an existing enterprise agreement.
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Sexual Harassment, bullying, and discrimination

  • Bullying and harassment obligations and statutory provisions.
  • Investigation and review of complaints.
  • Prevention of bullying and harassment.
  • Managing complaints and dealing with grievances.
  • Meeting positive duty in relation to sex discrimination and sexual harassment.
  • Obligations and statutory provisions of State and Federal anti-discrimination legislation.
  • General protections under the Fair Work Act.
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Independent contracting agreements

  • Review and determination of contractor vs. employee classification.
  • Sham contracting risks.
  • Interpreting independent contractor agreement terms.
  • General advice on creating independent contractor agreements.
  • Tax and superannuation considerations.
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Managing ill and injured workers

  • Temporary absences and return to work.
  • Capability review.
  • Physical and psychological health in the workplace.
  • Workers’ Compensation claims management.
  • Guidance to reduce Workers’ Compensation claims.
  • Mitigating the risk of general protections and unfair dismissal claims.
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Redundancy and restructures

  • Identifying operational changes.
  • Engagement with affected employees.
  • Selection of redundant roles.
  • Meeting consultation requirements.
  • Consideration of redeployment options.
  • Redundancy pay and notice requirements.
  • Mitigating the risk of general protections and unfair dismissal.