The Money Blog

Author: Claire Harrison

The best way to lessen the risk of an unfair dismissal claim or have a solid defence to a claim are to have valid reasons for the dismissal, to follow a fair procedure leading...

Author: Claire Harrison

The greatest risk for employers in having to terminate someone’s employment is the employee disputing the termination through one of four methods of claim:

1. Unfair Dismissal
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Author: Claire Harrison

The most common problem business leaders have when attempting to implement major change across an organisation is that employees are five steps behind them.

We’ve all experie...

Author: Claire Harrison

Do you discriminate (intentionally or not) against older people when recruiting and promoting?

Research by the Human Rights Commission shows that age discrimination is ongoin...

Author: Claire Harrison

It might come as a surprise to some, but the most likely time for employee dissatisfaction, low productivity, and turnover to occur is during the first few months of employmen...

Author: Claire Harrison

The superficially charming, highly ambitious employee (often leader) who pretends to listen attentively while dogmatically doing it their way and treading on whoever to achiev...

Author: Claire Harrison

I listened to Monica Lewinsky’s TED talk, which is about public humiliation, cyber bullying, and shame in our digital age. My other major take-away from Monica’s talk was the ...

Author: Claire Harrison

More than 70% of businesses have reported having to take disciplinary action against an employee for misuse of social media. The statistic was gathered from a 2014 survey and ...

Author: Claire Harrison

Not for the first time, I had a client call asking for advice around an employee who had recently started with them and just told them she was pregnant. Could they sack her? T...

Author: Claire Harrison

One of the biggest challenges for businesses is attracting great people.

An enticing job offer to a potential employee has a large impact on your ability to attract and appoi...

Author: Claire Harrison

Did you know new business owners can be held accountable for breaches of the Fair Work Act that occurred before they took ownership of an organisation?

Time and time again, w...

Author: Claire Harrison

The qualities and values that make great professional sporting leaders are similar to those of great business leaders. I recently heard Laura Geitz, former Australian and Quee...