Employment Relations

Solving problems

• Key principles
  • Good faith
  • Preventing employment relationship problems
  • Employment agreements and policies
  • Non-disciplinary action
  • Disciplinary action
  • Good reason
  • Fair process
• Types of problems that can occur
  • Misconduct and serious misconduct
  • Poor performance
  • Incapacity
  • Incompatability
  • Restructuring
• Resolving employment relationship problems
  • Recognising an employment relationship problem
  • Following a problem-solving procedure
  • The role of labour inspectors
  • Dismissal
  • Redundancy
  • What is a personal grievance?
  • Mediation
  • The Employment Relations Authority
  • Going to the Employment Court

Tools

• Frequently asked questions
• Holidays and leave tool
• Employment agreement builder
• Paid parental leave calculator
• Employment law database
• VisaView - employer online service

Resources

• Minimum employment rights and obligations [PDF 6 pages, 365KB]
• Employment relationships - From beginning to end [PDF 22 pages, 566kb]
• Solving problems at work [PDF, 20 pages 810KB]
• Going to the Employment Relationship Authority [PDF 13 pages, 516KB]
• Using mediation service effectively [PDF 24 pages, 919KB]
• Redundancy support from Work and Income [external site]