The Workplace Relations Minister, Julia Gillard, has released details about the Government's intentions for further changes to our Industrial Relations laws.

Recent amendment to the Victorian Public Holidays Act includes a change which will soon impact across the whole of the State.

'Modern' Awards might come at a heavy cost for employers - and the economy.

In this article, we review Labor's recently introduced 'transitional' industrial relations legislation. It is transitional because this is not the end of the changes to our workplace relations laws...

Do employers need to rush to implement changes under the old rules, before everything changes? Well, yes and no, depending on whether you've used AWAs before. If not, then we wouldn't suggest you change course now... Read on for details and our analysis of Forward with Fairness, Labor's future plan for industrial relations.

We spend a lot of our time helping employers extract themselves from difficult situations arising around employee counselling and discipline. This is a great source of new business for us, but not what we would prefer to spend our time doing, because inevitably, its not productive for our client. In this article, we talk about some of the procedural steps involved in dealing with difficult or non-performing employees and provide you with access to a free template 'Disciplinary Record' form which you can adopt as your own.

In our professional experience, it doesn't really matter what Government or legislation is in place - some employees will simply do whatever it takes to get back at you. The solution? To lower your risk of it happening to you, apply some basic fairness in everything you do.

Play the .wmv recording of our webinar on Transmission of Business under Work Choices.

Confused as to how all the different elements of Strategic HR fit together to form a self-perpetuating system? We recently created a digitally printed A3 wallchart of how such a system fits together.

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