Recruitment Information Articles
Change of employee’s surname — employer’s responsibilities
16 July 2010
Employers are sometimes unsure of their responsibilities when an employee asks to change his/her name on the employer’s records.
Flexibility comes at a cost to workers: expert
15 July 2010
Increasing flexibility in the workplace, through certain technologies and working from home allowances, isn’t making life easier for workers, according to a labour relations expert.
It’s ‘coach or poach’ for employees as economy recovers
17 December 2009
Senior management needs to prepare for economic recovery by developing the skills of their workforce to avoid a skills shortage in the future, according to a business strategist.
If you can’t answer these questions, you need help
2 December 2009
Do you know everything you need to know about the new Fair Work Australia workplace relations system? See if you can answer these questions.
Only 20% seek more flexible work, survey shows
28 July 2009
Around 20% of workers only are seeking more flexibility in their work–life balance from their employers, and around one-third of those get knocked back, new research has shown.
'Frowning’ bosses a bar to flexible work practices
27 July 2009
Many organisations have flexible work policies, but they are rarely put into practice by employees in case the boss disapproves, a Queensland academic has found.
Why use a recruiter
23 June 2009
You need people … but have you considered the true cost of recruitment?
Apprentice bonus tripled to head off skills crisis
19 January 2009
The Federal Government has more than tripled the bonus paid to employers for taking on new apprentices, in a bid to head off a looming skills shortage as the economy recovers.
IR law changes: start preparing for 2010
8 April 2008
The ‘transitional’ changes to the federal Workplace Relations Act commenced on 28 March 2008, but the changes due to commence on 1 January 2010 are far more substantive. HR practitioners should start now to look at how their employers can prepare for, and take advantage of, those changes.