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Mel Novak Small Business Engagement Manager | Beyond Blue Mel has a long history within the financial services industry and understands the pressures that small business owners are exposed to. Mel is deeply passionate about mental health and raising awareness around issues that so often are stigmatised such as suicide and depression.

Induction, or orientation, is the process of introducing a new worker to the workplace and your business. Its aim is to assist the worker to settle into the job and become fully productive and committed to the business as soon as possible.

The effects of coronavirus have been devastating for some non-employing business owners who have lost their businesses overnight, whilst others are still going for now but struggling financially with a reduced customer base.

Read how a dispute with a landlord led to an unfair dismissal case, where an employee was forced to take annual leave and eventually terminated without warning.

When a stack of gyprock fell on a carpenter, a court found his lifelong disabilities were caused by the employer’s negligence in storing gyprock sheets vertically, and awarded the carpenter $650K in damages.

Risk assessment is a useful tool to help you foresee and manage potential threats to your business before they occur.

Last updated: 9:12am 9 April 2020

Reliance on dodgy attendance records plus lack of procedural fairness led to unfair dismissal.

A bank officer who sent over 50 disrespectful text messages to his manager has lost his unfair dismissal claim. The Fair Work Commission ruled that the texts, which posed a psychosocial risk to the manager, justified his termination despite being sent outside work hours.