We enter the new industrial relations regime with a degree of suspicion and doubt.
Can I talk to my employees without the union interfering?Can the unions force me to accept things in an agreement which I can't afford?Are the Unions going to 'ride roughshod' at my workplace?The truth be known is that we have a new set of bargaining rules effective from the 1st July 2009 and a new set of Modern Awards from [read more]
How do you know your training is working? How do you know your investment is achieving positive ret[...]
How do you know your training is working?How do you know your investment is achieving positive returns?How do you know you are getting value for your dollar? Quite frankly if you are asking yourself these questions you are more than likely not getting a return on your training investment. Why? Because if you are conducting training as some knee jerk reaction [read more]
In the perfect business world we have continuing revenue growth, proportionate profits, highly loyal[...]
Question: Just what do General George Custer and Sitting Bull have to do with our Industrial Relations situation in Australia and Bargaining for an agreement? Well Custer made some simple mistakes which we can help you avoid. Picture 1: You catch an employee with their 'hand in the till.' You boot them out the door quicker than a Brett Lee bouncer. [read more]