Services
The Guild provides a range of workplace relations services to work in partnership with members to improve their employment practices as a benefit of membership.
The Guild defines Workplace Relations as comprising of Industrial Relations (IR), Human Resources (HR), Employee Relations (ER), Work Health & Safety (WHS) and Workers Compensation (WC).
Member Benefit Services
These partnership services include the provision of information, advice and assistance, to help you manage a broad range of matters that effect pharmacy business, including:
- Interpretation of Award and Enterprise Agreement conditions and entitlements
- Wages including the provision of detailed wage sheets
- Managing employee performance and conduct
- Termination of employment
- Redundancy
- Harassment, bullying and discrimination
- Work health and safety (information)
- Workers' compensation (information)
- Leave queries including calculations for annual and long service leave
- Employment contracts
- Recruitment and induction
- Change management – eg rostering, consultation, change of hours arrangements, operating arrangements
- Investigations (information)
- Policies and procedures
- Discussion on alternative employment arrangements (IFA, flexible day/hours, annualised wages)
- Creation of Enterprise Agreements
- Interpretation of legislation and case law
- Selling or Buying of a business (eg employment entitlements and conditions)
Additional Fee-based Services
The Guild also provides additional fee-based services for members including:
- Workplace relations audits
- Meditations, conciliations and formal hearings before the Fair Work Commission or other industrial tribunals if necessary
- Representation at industrial disputes
- Development and implementation of Enterprise agreements
- Information sessions in human resources and employment relations matters
- Complex calculations of wages and/or leave entitlements
- Drafting and/or reviewing complex written documents such as termination, redundancy or performance management documents, or workplace policies and procedures
- Investigations for workplace grievances.
Support for smaller branches such as ACT, TAS and NT.
General written advice in the form of fact sheets, editorials, generic templates and bulletins are provided as part of your membership fee. See Workplace Relations
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Page last updated on: 16 September 2022