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Employment Practices

This section is designed to assist NSW small business employers in recruiting and retaining the best people. Adopting best employment practices will assist you to avoid unnecessary recruitment costs and help in reducing costs incurred by absenteeism. It also involves better utilitsing the skills and expertise of the employees.

Topics covered include:

• Recruitment
• Counselling and disciplinary procedures
• Managing People
• Constructive Grievance Handling
• Minimising Absenteeism
• Flexible Work Practices
• Workplace policies and procedures

In recent years considerable media attention has focussed on the cost to employers of unfair dismissal cases, usually concentrating on the more unusual cases. In reality, unfair dismissals are rare, affecting less than 0.2% of the 2.33 million employees in NSW each year. This media attention has resulted in many small business employers feeling insecure about their ability to hire and fire without incurring such claims.

When ending the employment relationship it may be useful to look at the following:

• Managing performance
• Dismissing an employee
• Categories of termination
• Unfair dismissal
• Avoiding Unfair Dismissals