Many employers now have concerns about maintaining the productivity of their remote workforces, but this is absolutely not the time to introduce higher levels of monitoring, an HR analytics expert says.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld one employer's application to reduce redundancy pay due to its financial hardship, but rejected another employer's plea.
A taskforce and response teams, weekly roundtables and revamped communication strategies are helping a food manufacturer respond quickly to COVID-19 disruptions, its HR director says.
Employees might be unlikely to dispute stand-down directions at the moment, but a large number of claims and legal challenges are set to emerge when the market recovers, a lawyer warns.
Warning remote workers to be "as productive as possible" will only exacerbate the challenges associated with COVID-19, while maintaining standard, predictable working hours and compensation for overtime will help alleviate them, researchers say.
The rules that will determine how the national JobKeeper scheme operates have been released. Also in this article, unemployment is set to hit 10%; employees are reporting higher stress levels, but are generally positive about their employers' COVID-19 responses; and more.
This webcast explains how employers can stay compliant with the Fair Work Act while directing stand downs, varying employees' hours or pay, or making roles redundant. It also provides a detailed overview of the new JobKeeper wage subsidy arrangements.
Leaders who think they are communicating with employees in more detail and with more frequency due to COVID-19 might still be under-doing it, a psychologist says.
Fair Work Act amendments to allow the Federal Government's $1500-a-fortnight JobKeeper scheme to proceed have been passed by parliament. Meanwhile the FWC has added pandemic leave to close to 100 modern awards.
Few organisations will be making major changes to their performance management systems in the coming months, but certain elements do need updating – and fairly urgently, says a Gartner director.
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