HR Compliance Library

In today’s legal environment, it is essential to adopt relevant HR compliance initiatives.  Whether it is occupational health and safety, industrial relations, sexual harassment or antidiscrimination laws, a business that isn’t aware of its HR responsibilities may be headed for legal ramifications.

As a manager dealing with employees, it is important to know the laws and develop appropriate policies in relation to the laws.

Compliance also requires communication of the policies to your staff and spelling out the consequences if people do not follow.  To be truly successful, effective HR compliance programs need to be filtered down from the top of an organisation and all staff must be aware that the place of employment must be kept safe and discrimination will not be tolerated.

Industrial Relations

• Dismissals for theft, safety breaches and deliberate misconduct found unfair   
• 5 Things to Consider when making Redundancies
• Workplace Bullying - Reality or Myth?
• Managing a problem team member out of the workplace
• Unfair dismissal
• Discrimination in the workforce
• Age discrimination: is it a real problem in the workplace?
• There is real value in diversity
• Gender equality still an issue
• Addressing workplace discipline
• HR or IT - someone has to tackle porn
• Parental leave - there's no turning back
• Putting a lid on absenteeism
• Blogging - an emerging issue
• Counter workplace violence
• Is bullying reducing productivity?
• Rules around harassment are strict
• When co-workers go bad

Occupational Health and Safety

Changing legislative requirements can make it difficult for employers to keep up to date with what is legally required. Our aim at Kelly Services is for zero injuries, and we hope that the information presented here will help you meet that aim as well.

• Health & Safety Responsibilities for Labour Hire Employees 
• Model Workplace Health and Safety Laws  
• Fire Safety in the Workplace   
• Manual Handling 
• Working with Hazardous Substances  
• Safety for Part Time Employees 
• How to manage changes in Employee Behaviour 
• Safety Tips for Work Travel 
• How to diffuse office tension and conflict
• How to manage violence and agression in the workplace  
• Alcohol in the workplace
• Employers are liable for Christmas party injuries
• The role of workplace assessments 
• The value of a safety committee 
• WorkCover NSW self assessment 
• NSW Workcover Small Business Information Sessions 

To learn more about Occupational Health and Safety best practice contact your Government department.

Important Note:
The information contained herein is for information purposes only. Kelly Services (Australia) Ltd takes no responsibility for any liabilities that emerge based on the information contained within this website.