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Employing and Managing Staff

The following pages provide useful advice on employing and managing staff. There's also free onsite assistance to help attract and retain staff to improve your business.

Skills for Growth

Skills for Growth will help Victorian small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), including those in the community sector, with workforce skills development. It will provide a team of independent workforce planning and training specialists to deliver direct assistance to the business. Through the program eligible workers will be able to access government subsidised training solutions.

Recruiting staff

Includes planning for what kind of staff you need and the entire recruitment process, from writing job descriptions and advertisements to interviews and final selection.

Rights and responsibilities of employers

Understand the basic legal obligations for employing people. Includes minimum conditions, awards and agreements, tax, superannuation, equal opportunity, health and safety, long service leave and child employment.

Skills and training

Describes how to identify skills gaps then choose suitable courses and training facilities. Also explains apprenticeships and who to contact for assistance.

Keeping good staff

Covers induction, staff review procedures and motivation techniques.

Ending employment

Take the right steps when ending employment by either resignation, dismissal, redundancy or retrenchment. Includes checklists for what to cover on your employee's last day.

Tools and templates

A comprehensive list of employment templates and tools. Includes staff planning estimators, a human resources manual template, recruiting and interviewing templates and professional development plans.



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