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COVID-19 Response

  • COVID-19 Response – Implications for Employment
  • Downturn in Business – Response Strategies

Leave

  • Accumulation of Paid Personal Carer’s Leave
  • Annual Leave Basics
  • Cashing out Leave Entitlements
  • Challenging the validity of Medical Evidence
  • Community Service Leave
  • Compassionate Leave – Definition & Entitlement
  • Definition of ‘Immediate Family’
  • Definition of ‘Temporary Absence’ (due to illness or injury)
  • Evidence and Personal Leave Absences
  • Leave Accrual Balances on Payslips
  • Long Service Leave – New South Wales
  • Long Service Leave – Queensland
  • LSL Qld – Pro rata payment after 7 years’ service
  • Long Service Leave – South Australia
  • Long Service Leave – Victoria
  • Long Service Leave – Western Australia
  • Personal Leave – Definition & Calculation
  • Unpaid Parental Leave Basics

Performance management and dismissal

  • Basic Tips for Managing Absences
  • Best Practice Guide for Small Businesses – Performance Management & Dismissal
  • Best Practice Guide – Performance Management & Dismissal (other than small business)
  • Concluding Employment due to Incapacity
  • Criteria for considering harshness, etc (Unfair Dismissal)
  • Definition of ‘Serious Misconduct’
  • Employee Refusal to work on Public Holidays
  • Exploration of the Minimum Employment Period
  • Issuing of Warnings – Best Practice Principles
  • Issuing of Warnings – Employee Disputation
  • Issuing of Warnings – The magic number
  • Role of the Support Person
  • Small Business Employers & Unfair Dismissal
  • Summary – Absenteeism, Illness & Injury Management
  • The ‘Show Cause’ Process
  • Unfair Dismissal & General Protections
  • When illness/injury impacts performance

Notice

  • Notice of Termination
  • Notice of Termination & the Taking of Leave
  • Notice & the Probationary Period

Redundancy

  • Meaning of Genuine Redundancy
  • The Consultation Process, in Summary

Casual Conversion

  • Casual Employment & Conversion

Flexible work arrangements

  • Requests for Flexible Working Arrangements

Stand down

  • COVID-19 Response – Implications for Employment
  • Employee Entitlements for Severe Weather Events
  • Stand down

Right of entry

  • Union Right of Entry (to hold discussions)

Pay

  • Absences & Public Holidays
  • Award Coverage & Paying ‘above-award’
  • Deductions from Wages
  • Employment Contract basics
  • Pay Slips & Employee Records
  • Payment for Public Holidays not worked
  • Public Holiday Basics
  • Public Holidays – Leave & Stand down FAQ’s
  • Show Holiday Basics
  • Unpaid Trials
  • Withholding Monies on Resignation