Fact Sheets

Employer Services provides practical HR and workplace relations fact sheets to help Australian employers understand employment obligations and manage common workplace issues. Our resources cover employee leave, performance management, termination of employment, redundancy, pay and conditions, and other matters arising under Australia’s workplace relations system.

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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 Pay slips
  • Long Service Leave – New South Wales
  • Long Service Leave – Queensland
  • LSL Qld – Pro rata payment after 7 years’ service
  • Long Service Leave – Victoria
  • Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave
  • 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
  • ‘Fit for Work’ vs ‘Medical Clearance’
  • General Protections – A closer look
  • 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

  • Downturn in Business – Response Strategies
  • Meaning of Genuine Redundancy
  • The Consultation Process, in Summary

Casual Conversion

  • Casual Employment & Conversion – Other than Small Business Employers
  • Casual Employment & Conversion – Small Business Employers

Flexible work arrangements

  • Requests for Flexible Working Arrangements

Stand down

  • 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