The National Employment Standards Industrial relations covers awards and conditions, employers and workplace conditions. At HR4Business, we help employers to understand and carry out their responsibilities, as well as educating employees about their requirements and entitlements. Our IR Consultant’s service a wide range of towns across the region including Ballarat. It is about protecting the...
Performance Management – Dealing with Underperformance Underperformance should be dealt with promptly and appropriately by an employer, as employees are often unaware they are not performing well and so are unlikely to change their performance. Best practice employers understand that issues that are not addressed promptly also have the potential to become more serious over...
Employers are being reminded of the need to take prompt action when issued with a Compliance Notice from the Fair Work Ombudsman, requiring them to back-pay underpaid employees. The Fair Work Ombudsman identifies more than $20 million in underpayments at thousands of Australian businesses each year. The large majority of these cases are resolved through...
Why are payroll audits important? Paying staff is a major cost of running your business – therefore ensuring the process is running correctly and smoothly is of utmost importance to ensure the ongoing success of your business. Your staff also trust in you to pay them correctly and keep accurate records – it’s an important...
Caring for the culture of your organisation We provide professional HR consulting services to Geelong and surrounding areas including Ballarat. Managing people – it’s a constant task that requires professional advice and expertise. We can deliver that advice and expertise to help you manage the people in your business. How the people in your business...
HR4Business held it’s first HR Professionals Network Breakfast in Colac! Sue delivered a presentation on Effective Management of Employee Performance. Stay tuned for further events for Colac in 2014!!
On 22 August, 2013 the Fair Work Commission made a decision to increase apprentice pay rates under a number of modern awards. The changes will start from 1 January 2014, and some will be phased in over 2 years. What are the changes? 1st and 2nd year pay rates for new apprentices will begin to increase...
HR4Business, encourages employers to consider employees Mental Health and the negative effects of working longer hours. Small business owners and corporate organisations are notorious for working long hours and this can sometimes become part of the culture for employees as well. However, do these longer hours mean higher profits? We can thank the Industrial Revolution and Dolly...
Colac HR PROFESSIONALS Breakfast On Tuesday 8th October HR4Business is holding a HR Professionals Breakfast information session in Colac. The session focus is ‘effective management of employee performance’. Managing employee performance can be a tricky task, and an ongoing one at that. Poor staff performance can impact every aspect of your business if left unmanaged....
Many businesses find recruitment challenging at the best of times. It can be time consuming and in many cases, whilst the business may know what type of person they want to hire, they lack the skills required to effectively ‘recruit’ a suitable candidate. This can mean costly hiring mistakes and a drain on your business and...
