The Industrial Relations landscape within Australia is frequently criticised in the Human Resources community for being pro-employee. Politics plays in every area of the law and Employment Law is certainly no exception.
Return to Work obligations can be difficult to understand and sort out what is relevant to each case you may have with your employees. It's important to have a process in place and audited it often to make sure your obligations are still in line with Australian Law.
What’s most important is that your system works for your organisation. It’s up to you to decide how to manage a safe and healthy workplace, and to put your plan into practice.
As we approach the end of financial year pay review most employees are expecting some sort of pay rise. As HR professionals we tend to start thinking about the Performance Review Process.
When things change, or we’re stressed, we forget the basics. Now I’m a pretty process-driven person and I hate it when I forget something. I find checklists give me structure and when things get busy I can just go back to the checklist and know that I won’t miss anything important.