A few New Year’s Resolutions from an employment, industrial relations and work health and safety perspective as we kick off 2025.

See how many of these can be completed or substantively advanced by the end of March 2025:

Payroll Compliance

Conduct or review your modern award mapping and classifications across the business. Ensure that all employees are receiving correct pay and entitlements under applicable industrial instruments and workplace laws. Criminal wage theft laws are now in place for intentional underpayments. Severe civil penalties also remain in place for underpayments which are not intentional in nature.

Preventing Sexual Harassment (Queensland)

Prepare, consult and implement a prevention plan to manage an identified risk to the health or safety of workers, or other persons, from sexual harassment and sex or gender-based harassment at work. This needs to underway from March 2025.

Positive Duty to Prevent Sexual Harassment (All Australian States and Territories)

Review current measures in place to prevent sexual harassment and sex or gender based harassment at work, generally. Are the measures effective? Does more need to be done to prevent such conduct? There is an expectation of ongoing positive and active attention to this important area.

Psychosocial Hazards and Risks

Review current risk assessments and ensure that psychosocial hazards and risks have been appropriately identified and recorded. Review control measures. Are the measures effective? Does more...

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