It’s ideal to keep your staff happy – because it’s good for business. Are your staff happy? You don’t care! You should care. Happy staff put in the extra time, the extra effort, and go that extra mile. Happy employees work harder – and are more productive, therefore more profitable than unhappy staff. That’s the…
Manage Recruitment Costs without taking on added Responsibility Like most companies, a long term client of Flexi needed to urgently fill a vacant position but didn’t want the hassle of screening every candidate. “I need to find a Business Development Manager,” the CEO confided, “But I just don’t have the time or head space to…
For the past couple of weeks, it’s been tough to avoid following the viral success of the ALS ice bucket challenge. Literally thousands of people including quite a few celebrities and public figures have been dousing themselves with buckets of ice water for a great cause and challenging others to do the same. No matter…
Do you need a recruitment consultant or is D.I.Y. Recruitment a realistic option for your business? Will Do-It-Yourself recruitment save you money or cost you money and time? Regardless of which method you choose, before you even start your recruitment process you need to: Know yourself, what you want, and don’t want Know your company…
The Minimum Wage increase of 3%. The Fair Work Commission has increased minimum wages in awards and the national minimum wage by 3% on Wednesday 6th June. This increase will impact each casual employee that is hired under the minimum award classifications. Superannuation Guarantee increase to 9.5%. For the year 2014/15, employers are required to…
The national minimum wage will be lifted by 3 per cent – or 50 cents an hour – as announced by the Fair Work Commission this week. This change will directly affect around 1.5 million Australians on award wages. From July 1 the minimum wage is increasing by $18.70 per week, taking it from about…
From July 1 the payroll tax in Victoria will be cut to the second lowest rate in the nation. As part of its 2014/15 budget the state government will reduce the taxation on the wages paid by employers by 0.05 percentage points to 4.85% It will become one of Australia’s lowest payroll tax rates, behind…
Just like everybody else, recruitment consultants and HR professionals have to do more work with fewer resources, employers expect employees to continually reinvent themselves whilst organisations are looking for ways to reduce costs
I recently attended the CEO Institute’s annual summit at the home of cricket, the MCG. It was my first time at one of these summits’ and had heard mixed reviews about them over the years. But I’m sure glad I went. As after a series of different speakers, who were all very engaging and interesting…
