How confident are you that your workplace meets the required standards?

By Ron Jones
HR Management & Workplace Relations Consultant

It is now 18 months since the commencement of the modern awards under the Fair Work Act and a lot has changed during that time.

It is more than likely that your payroll system has made the changes necessary to ensure staff are receiving the right pay and allowances.

Hopefully you have included redundancy entitlements in the conditions of employment offered to staff.

You will also have your staff on either a contract of employment which refers specifically to the award or you will have a negotiated enterprise agreement.

Your leave entitlements will also follow the National Employment Standards so that permanent and long term staff, including casuals, can obtain benefits for carer’s leave, community service leave and long service leave.

Of course, you will have also made sure that you don’t have any long term casual staff performing regular work.

And, your policies and procedures preclude the possibility of an adverse action or unfair dismissal claim against you.

The reason why all of these things will be in place is because you want to do the right thing as well as avoiding any possibility of being fined $33,000 each time you make a mistake.

Perhaps you are not sure if all of this is in place.

Just to be on the safe side it might be timely to have someone do a review and advise if there are any compliance issues.

You can help safeguard your organisation for just a small investment.

Please contact Ron Jones Consulting to discuss further.