Managing People - HR Services & Solutions

Probationary Employment Periods: Do They Still Matter?

by Greg Mitchell | Apr 28, 2025 | HR Compliance, Managing People, Recruitment

The short answer: In a legal sense, not really. In a best practice/building a better business sense, yes. The longer answer: One of the common misunderstandings we come across in our dealings with small and medium-sized business owners and managers is that, if their...

Free guide – Making Tough Calls: How to Let Go of Staff While Protecting Your Team & Business

by Greg Mitchell | Dec 2, 2024 | HR Compliance, Managing People

Supporting business owners and managers with potential terminations of employment is a fairly regular part of our days here at HR Success (TBH, it’s not our favourite thing to do, but it’s support that our clients regularly need help with). So, given that...

Webinar replay – Terminating Employment: Reducing the Risks

by Greg Mitchell | Dec 2, 2024 | HR Compliance, Managing People

Terminating employment can feel like a minefield, but it doesn’t have to be! Click below to view our recent webinar, Terminating Employment: Reducing the Risks. The presentation covers: Common myths around terminating employment Key steps to manage poor performance...

Right to Disconnect: The Essentials

by Greg Mitchell | Jun 7, 2024 | HR Compliance, Managing People

Our recent blog article (click here to access) highlighted the latest changes impacting employment arrangements arising from the Government’s Closing the Loopholes legislation. In this article, we take a deeper look at the changes relating to an employee’s “Right to...

Workplace Surveillance: Proceed with Caution

by Greg Mitchell | Mar 29, 2024 | HR Compliance, Managing People

We were recently approached by a client for guidance in regards to implementing workplace surveillance strategies. Their particular concern related to a work from home employee who, they suspected, may have been “taking it a bit too easy”. While they are...

Useful Resources to Address Psychosocial Risks

by Greg Mitchell | Feb 20, 2024 | HR Compliance, Managing People

Our recent article highlighting the obligations of employers to identify and address psychosocial risks in the workplace (click HERE if you missed it), generated a few enquiries, including one from a client whose frontline retail staff were unfortunately facing...