News
19 November 2024
Resilience in challenging times
Working in a health practice is a challenging environment. It’s always busy and the people you are dealing with are often stressed and facing difficult situations. Workforce shortages are affecting all areas of health, which in turn leads to pressure on your practice staff as they need to work longer hours and deal with more complex patients, often doing more with less.
16 October 2024
Cybersmart week and Business Life Plan
Cyber Smart week is 21-27 October. Cert NZ the Government Agency will be providing information on their website. The focus this year is to raise the importance of being secure on-line and encouraging the use of two-factor authentication and maintaining strong passwords.
17 September 2024
September newsletter
This month we have highlighted the recent Court Appeal determination that four Uber drivers are in fact employees not contractors. We are also looking at the Institute of Directors guidelines on the responsibilities of Directors under health and safety legislation, and privacy guidelines from the Office of the Privacy Commission.
13 August 2024
Restructuring and redundancies
Before you start to consider undertaking a restructure redundancy process there are some things to remember: • The process is about a role not an individual employee • The process should not be used to avoid a performance management process • If you have Employment Disputes cover as part of your business insurance there is probably a notification requirement to your insurers. • Check the impacted employees’ employment agreements to check your responsibilities under these, collective agreements usually include change management clauses as well as redundancy clauses.
16 July 2024
Annual leave and close downs
Now that we are past the shortest day, you might find that your staff are starting to plan their summer holidays. We have had a few queries from practices that are considering closing for some of the days between the Christmas and New statutory holidays, so we look at what needs to be considered.
18 June 2024
Bullying and harassment in the workplace
WorkSafe NZ guidelines define workplace bullying as “repeated and unreasonable behaviour directed towards a worker or a group of workers that creates a risk to health and safety “. The definition goes on to explain that: Repeated behaviour is persistent and can involve a range of actions over time. Unreasonable behaviour means actions that a reasonable person in the same circumstances would see as unreasonable. It includes victimising, humiliating, intimidating, or threatening a person.
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