Caterpillar’s Stellar Move To Attract High-Quality Employees

The secret’s out: To be the best, you must hire the best. And with great resources such as LinkedIn LNKD +1.5%, The Muse, and Glassdoor, top talent is becoming easier than ever to find.

But the best talent wants to work for companies that are leaders in their industry. So how do you make potential hires and current employees want to work for your company?
Read more…

Management Consulting – HR Human Resources Consulting – When Outplacement Is Stingy After A Job Loss

Losing your job has never been easy. But today, outplacement — a cushion many laid-off workers relied on to soften the blow and ease their transition to a new job — is getting much stingier. And that’s if you get this benefit at all.

Fifteen years ago, a laid-off mid-level executive might have reasonably expected his or her ex-employer to invest $5,000 for four to six months of professional job search assistance. Today that same person would be lucky to receive the dollar equivalent of $1,500 worth of outplacement services. In most parts of the country, that would amount to a paltry two months of coaching.
Read more…

Australian Government Fair Work Ombudsman – Industrial action

Industrial action

Industrial action is taken by employers or employees to settle a workplace dispute about working conditions. It includes, when employees:

• don’t come to work
• fail, or refuse to perform any work at all
• delay or put a ban or limit on the work they do
• are locked out of a workplace by their employer

Read more…

Australian Government Fair Work Ombudsman – Resolving issues, disputes and dismissals

Industrial action

Types of industrial action

Industrial action can be taken by employees or employers.

Employees may go on strike (refusing to attend or perform work) or impose work bans (refusing to perform one or more of their normal duties).

Employers may lock out their employees (refusing to allow them to work)
Read more…

Australian Government Fair Work Ombudsman – Dismissal, termination & redundancy

Dismissal & termination of employment

A person has been dismissed from their employment when:

• their employment has been terminated at the initiative of the employer, or
• they have resigned their employment but the resignation was forced by the conduct, or a course of conduct, by the employer.

Read more…

Australian Government Fair Work Ombudsman – Managing under performance

Working at best practice

Employers who work at best practice benefit from motivated staff that are performing at their best. These employers also understand that when issues concerning underperformance are not addressed and managed both appropriately and sensitively, it can lead to unhealthy and unproductive outcomes that may affect the entire workplace.
Read more…