Employees Matter

Episode Notes

We wanted to review and analyse what the JobKeeper Scheme means for you, your employees and your business and how you can make it work for you. So that you will not only survive but thrive through COVID-19.

Legal

- What is the JobKeeper Scheme trying to achieve for Australia

- Benefits for employees and employers

- Parental Leave eligibility

- How to use the subsidy for innovation and creativity

- How can we give back to our community

- What are the risks

- Understanding what you can actually do from a legal perspective

- ATO's access to data

- Fair Work Commission & spike of claims

- Crisis-tunity - what is the 'silver lining'

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Accounting

- Government Stimulus packages

- What is the impact to business

- Mindset

- Industries that have been wiped out versus innovation or pivots

- What are the ATO warnings to Accountants and business

- Accountability Accountants

- Penalties

- Benefits for employees and employers

- Benefits of remaining in employment

- One Touch Payroll

Human Resources

- Complexity of the scheme

- How to get your employees to understand the scheme

- Employee Eligibility

- What are the opportunities of implementing the JobKeeper Scheme

- Consultation process and the benefits of consultation

- Job duties and changing the duties that an employee does

- Employee eligibility assessment

-What is the one thing from a legal, accounting and HR perspective every business owner needs to do now?

-What is the opportunity for business, employees, society with JobKeeper Scheme?

- What about post COVID-19, what will business look like then?

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Episode Notes

- What are you seeing in the market around COVID-19

- How are clients managing the huge volume of announcements from Government

- Communication strategy

- Innovation impacts of COVID-19

- Talent Management & Employee Value Proposition

- Working from Home Risk Mitigation

- Managing employees who work off site

- Headcount reduction & risks

- The benefits of planning

- Other alternatives to redundancy

- Breach risks - costs, reputation,attraction

- Case examples of who is doing this well

- Consultation

- Case study of a Construction Business (family business)

- Why is trust and culture important for business

- Recruitment planning

- HR Management

- Change Management

- Business Growth

- Building trust

- Benefits of hiring, managing and exiting better

- Being respectful of different team members needs

- What makes a great boss

Episode Notes

- The business focus of HR and the financial impacts

- The market impact of the COVID-19 is panic and short term focused

- The impacts of moving to Working from Home

- The risks and mitigation of Working from Home

- How to decide about downsizing

- Redundancy Risks and the influence of panic

- Unfair Dismissal Claims or General Protections Claim

- Business Continuity Plans

- Case study of a client who had not previously had any HR

- Award Classification

- Client stakeholder management

- The value of having an independent HR Practitioner

- What are the most common mistakes that businesses make with their employees

- Business Plans and Strategic People Plan

FAQs

1. My business is struggling, what can I do to help it survive? 1.33

2. What do I do if an employee contracts COVID-19? 4.06

3. What options does an employer have if schools/ childcare centres close and parents are trying to balance working from home with children at home? 5.09

4. I have a travel member who is stuck overseas due travel restrictions. What can I do? 6.15

5. I have an employee who due to government direction in self isolation or quarantine? 6.44

6. Can I reduce my team's hours or salary? 7.12

7. Can I make my team go casual? 8.35

8. Can my team work for free? 8.55

9. Do I have to pay redundancy? e.g associated companies 9.56

10. Do I need to document any changes? 10.58

11. Can I get them to take leave? 11.12

12. How can I be a great leader? 11.45

13. Will Fair Work come after me? 12.20

14. What are the risks, if I get this wrong? 12.27

15. What happens if my workplace is closed due to a government enforced shut? 13.15

16. My business is struggling,can I stand down my employees? 14.13

17.What factors do I have to consider with having my employees working from home? 15.25

18. Can an employer refuse to attend the workplace because they are fearful? 16.18

19. How much and what should I be communicating to my team at the current time? How can I reassure them when I'm not sure myself? 16.57

20. What happens to allowances that employees currently receive as part of their package around car or travel. Our employees are all working from home and conducting all client contacts via phone, email and zoom. 18.18

21. How can I support my employees well being? 19.24

https://www.employeematters.com.au/

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/

Episode Notes

- Working from Home WH&S impacts

- Making a home office safe

- Pets and their impacts to the workplace

- Trip Hazards

- First Aid Kits, Smoke detectors, Fire Blankets

- Check in calls with employees

- Making WH&S practical for the business

- What are the costs of getting WH&S wrong

- Mental Health First Responders (MHFA)

- What are the potential costs if we get this wrong

- Working from Home Agreement with an end date

- How to manage your own health through COVID-19

- PSTD & animal support

- Domestic & Family Violence impacts and support

- Practice gratitude

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https://www.hrfocus.com.au/safety-compliance

https://www.safework.nsw.gov.au/

Episode 1

- Cloud set up = flexibility, adaptable

- Productivity tools

- Cyber security risk and controls - checklists

- ZOOM/ Microsoft Teams

- Technology to enhance working from home

- Hosted VoIP

- How to increase productivity of WFH teams

- Internet load

- Mindset

- Multi factor authentication

- LastPass

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https://www.infiniteedge.com.au/

https://zoom.us/meeting

https://products.office.com/en-au/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software

https://computer.howstuffworks.com/ip-telephony.htm

Episode 2

- Telehealth

- Parents are feeling overwhelmed and how they can get help

- Mental Health impacts

- NDIS, Medicare Plans

- How can we entertain our kids through the school holidays

- Screen time and limits

- How can parents get help or support if they are not coping

- How can parents protect their kids

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https://kids-first.com.au/

School Ready - A practical and supportive guide for parents with sensitive kids -https://bit.ly/2VoXl5F

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-kristy-goodwin/

https://taronga.org.au/taronga-tv

Episode Notes 1

- How to deal with different age groups of kids at home through COVID-19

- How to structure a child's day

- Creating child led time to maintain attachment to you as their parents

- Setting expectations with teenagers

- Are we expected to be teachers?

- Kids building businesses

- B1G1

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https://kids-first.com.au/

School Ready - A practical and supportive guide for parents with sensitive kids -https://bit.ly/2VoXl5F

Episode Notes 1

- The value of a relationship with your GP

- Mental Health

- Telehealth

- Was a pandemic inevitable?

- Vaccination

- HIV

- Live Animal Markets

- Mental Health in the Workplace and Working from Home

- Have a mental health plan - be prepared

- Meditation, being present

- Coping Strategies

- Job stress

- RUOK?

- Advice for parents with home schooling

- Cognitive load

- Repercussions of isolation on families by age group

- Protecting your children through COVID-19 - building resilience

- Practice positivity

- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

- Practice gratefulness

- How to keep yourself safe from COVID-19

- Do masks help?

- Neuroplasticity

- Teachers are heroes

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Episode Notes 2

•Are you a victim of Domestic Violence?

•For victims of D&FV - "We believe you and it is not your fault."

•What is your exit safety plan

•Tips to leave an abusive situation safely

•Where is the best place to hide things

•What impacts do having pets have around leaving a D&FV situation

•How to use your phone in an emergency

•Three things to remember if you are a victimhttps://dvbusinesssolutions.com.au/

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