Human Resources
Our Human Resources services – refining and enabling your workforce
Award, award free
and EA contracts
Flexible work requests, leave entitlements
Interpretation, over and underpayments advice
Providing or interpreting policies and guidelines
Plans, process and entitlements
Bespoke training for your organisation
Return to work, compensation, plans
Organisational structure, change impacts
Human Resource advice to help you build a team that works
Having the right team with the right skills is vital to your organisation’s success. At CER we can help you review, refine and develop your teams to secure optimum results for your organisation.
Not only do we provide advice on workforce planning and restructure, we also provide bespoke training options to develop the skills of your existing team. We provide employment contracts and can help with payroll, and leave and entitlement queries. We can work with you to adapt our template policies and procedures to ensure you have all the necessary checks and balances in place.
Should something go wrong, we can support you with Legal Advice as well as Ill and Injured claims and ‘return to work’ plans to get your workforce back on its feet.
Need more than just HR advice?
CER’s Human Resources consultants can spend time with your team to identify gaps, risks and issues and provide an attainable action plan
Why CER?
At CER we offer a full suite of Employment Relations, Legal and Human Resources services. This means we can work with you when issues arise, but also help you develop your teams capabilities through our ongoing services.
End-to-end service
Affordable advice with Catholic knowledge
As the recommended provider of workplace advice for Catholic organisations, we ensure you receive quality advice, guided by Catholic social thought, at an affordable price.
We know that issues arising may be the pinnacle of other underlying organisational risks. We can work with you to conduct a CER Review to help identify why these issues may be occurring. We then provide an attainable action plan and support you to help resolve the underlying cause.
CER Review – more than just advice
Employment Contracts
Employee or independent contractor agreements need to cover significant detail to ensure that the relationship between parties is properly documented, and on terms that both parties understand and agree to. It is important that contracts of employment don’t conflict with, or contravene modern awards or enterprise agreements, if employees are covered by either. We offer a suite of contract templates – specifically drafted for award free, award covered, and enterprise agreement covered employees. We can also review your contracts of employment or independent contractor agreements and provide advice on contract disputes, as well as assist with contract variations resulting from flexible work requests.
Flexibility and Entitlements
Flexible work arrangements are commonplace and offer many benefits for employers and employees. Flexibility comes in many forms including job sharing, part-time or casual arrangements, varied start and finish times, roster variations, and many more. We're here to help you manage and respond to flexible work requests and work out what flexible work arrangements work best for you and your employees. We can also help you when employees request Individual Flexibility Arrangements under their applicable Award or Enterprise Agreement. Sometimes working flexibly means employees' leave entitlements can get tricky, especially for parental leave. Often people submit flexible work requests, post parental leave and we're here to help you navigate this rewarding but complex area of work.
Payroll, Rates and Allowances
Keeping up to date with annual or industry-related modern award pay rate changes can be challenging. We're here to analyse those changes for you and provide a summary of key changes relevant to your organisation and employees. We can give you up to date and accurate advice on pay rates and allowances across a range of Modern Awards and assist your payroll staff with interpreting complex clauses in Modern Awards and Enterprise Agreements. Our Employee Relations Specialists can work directly with your payroll staff to ensure your employees' pay rates and allowances are accurate.
Policies and Guidelines
We can review your workplace policies and guidelines to ensure they're up to date and reflect current laws and best practices. We're also happy to assist you with drafting new workplace policies and have a range of policy templates available. Some workplace policies and guidelines you may want to review or draft include – Managing Complaints and Grievances, Performance and Conduct, Leave, Flexible Working Arrangements, Managing Ill and Injured Employees, Privacy and Employee Records management, Recruitment Guidelines, and Working With Children Guidelines. Get in touch with us today for help with your Policies and Guidelines.
Terminations and Restructure
Managing the termination of employees can be a difficult process. Regardless of whether it’s because of performance, conduct or redundancy, employers must ensure that termination procedures are fair. You must offer the terminated employee an opportunity to respond and, for redundancies, requirements in awards and enterprise agreements must be genuinely met. CER can provide you with assistance and guidance dealing with terminations, and the steps to take to ensure termination is appropriate, lawful, and fair. CER can also provide assistance and representation if a termination is disputed.
Training and Development
If you think your managers and employees could benefit from some updated workplace training, we'd be happy to prepare training materials, deliver training, or assist you with drafting or reviewing your current training packages. We're flexible and will work with you to design training packages that are tailored specifically for your organisation, or provide general training to keep your employees updated on best practices. Please get in touch with us to discuss what training your organisation needs, who needs it, and when.
WHS and Ill and Injured
Managing ill and injured claims can be a complex and lengthy process. We can navigate you through the process of managing employees' short and long term leave matters in accordance with the applicable industrial instrument. We're also experienced in assisting you with Independent Medical Examination processes for your ill and injured employees, reviewing medical reports, and providing recommendations regarding the most appropriate next steps, such as return to work options or medical retirement. We can ensure you adhere to your Work Health and Safety obligations and support you through Workers Compensation and Return to Work matters.
Workforce Planning and Recruitment
Workforce Planning and Recruitment are essential components that employers need to get right in the employment lifecycle, because if not carried out effectively, can have detrimental and costly impacts to your organisation and other employees. We can help you review your current workforce planning strategy and ensure you have effective, fair and transparent recruitment practices that align with your organisational values. Workforce planning and recruitment processes can take some time, however, it's essential that employers prioritise these areas at the beginning to avoid costly headaches down the line.
Check out our contracts, policies, guidelines and procedures
Contact our Human Resources team today
Please note: CER offers legal assistance and advice on employment/industrial relations to Catholic employers. If you're an employee, please consult your HR department or direct supervisor for guidance.
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