Employee Relations Services
Compliance & Interpretation
- Awards, Agreements, the National Employment Standards, the Fair Work Act and other Acts.
- Utilising hours of work clauses and rosters to maximise productive hours and stay within the rules.
- Employer desktop audits
Difficult Employees
- Attitude or Performance Problems.
- We can assist you to have those difficult counselling conversations and bring these issues to a conclusion one way or another.
Disciplinary Processes & Terminations
- Where counselling has not provided the required outcome, we guide employers through discipline and termination processes which must be negotiated carefully.
Workplace Investigations
- We can undertake workplace investigations or provide you with the appropriate guidance.
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Unfair Dismissals & General Protections
- Guiding you through a variety of employee legal rights and protections.
- Adverse Action
- Fair Work Commission Representation
Bullying, Harassment, Sexual Harassment & Discrimination
- Actions to minimise the risk at your workplace.
- Fulfilling the employer obligation to eliminate sexual harassment.
- Responding to employee legal claims.
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Employment Contracts
- Comprehensive employment contracts templates which can be modified for your business.
- Award, salary, management.
- Restraint and confidentiality clauses.
- Standard terms and conditions.
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Enterprise Agreements
- Hunter Employee Relations can assist with strategy, preparing compliant documentation and Fair Work applications.
- We can lead the negotiations on your behalf.
Policies & Procedures
- Hunter Employee Relations can provide template policies that can be modified for your business needs, or we can develop more tailored options.
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Fair Work Ombudsman & Unions
- We can guide you in how to respond to Fair Work Ombudsman or union approaches.
Mental Health & Psychosocial Risk
- What are your obligations towards your employee’s workplace mental health.
- How should you respond to an individual’s mental health concerns.
Employee Feedback for Performance Improvements
- Taking a positive approach to getting the best out of each member of your team.
Position Descriptions
- Well written, outcome focussed, position descriptions can align your business strategy with employee tasks and responsibilities.
Organisational Culture Change & Performance Improvement
- Culture change comes from progressively setting workplace expectations, modelling behaviours and working with each employee to achieve the desired outcome.
Information Updates
- Employee Relations News Updates - Check out and sign up for our regular news updates here
- Monthly Consolidated Employee Relations Update – clients are kept informed of the current status of Government IR initiatives, Fair Work Commission projects and important ACTU campaigns.
How we work with our clients
- Small to medium size business specialist
- No retainer contracts or monthly fees
- Extensive industrial relations experience
We build long term relationships - not just another voice on a hotline.
We take a user friendly approach
Employee relations is getting quite complex and onerous on employers. We take the “tell me exactly what I need to know” approach to guiding senior management on employee relations issues – making the process as user-friendly as possible.
We prefer to prevent problems when they are small
We work to minimise (or even eliminate) the risk of unfair dismissal or adverse action applications proceeding to hearing in the Fair Work Commission or Federal Court.
We do not do hard sell
I don’t like it being done to me and we don’t do it to our clients. We’ll let you know what’s available and make recommendations and then it’s up to you.
As a potential new client, if you wish to catch up over a coffee to discuss how we could work together, please let me know.
We do not have monthly retainers or lock in contracts.
Want to know more about Hunter Employee Relations?
Kind Regards
Michael Schmidt
Hunter Employee Relations
M 0438 129 728
[email protected]
www.hunteremployeerelations.com.au
Testimonial extract from Lampson Australia – a Hunter ER client since 2008.
‘…He has always shown a strong personal interest in protecting our business interests in a very professional and practical manner. He is easy to work with and has become an essential part of our business.’ Lampson (Australia) Pty Ltd
Industrial Relations - Employment Law - Workplace Performance