2. What questions you could ask when doing a training needs analysis that would clarify whether staff were appropriately skilled to manage disciplinary action?
3. Considering the principles relating to privacy legislation. Which of those relate most to the depersonalising of private information?
1. How can you establish best practice in relation to separation and termination?
In order to establish best practice in any area of HR, recent developments in legislative parameters needs to be considered and researched to determine compliance, governance, and effectiveness of a policy or procedure.
In context of separation and termination, if a policy and process is not define and undertaken correctly then employers could be subject to an array of claims and/or disruption to business.
In order to establish best practice, research relating to separation and termination should be conducted and consideration should be given to separation based on:
Cessation of casual labour agreement
Conclusion of an employment contract by either party or by both parties mutually
Death
Dismissal
Expiry of a fixed term contract
Redeployment
Redundancy
Resignation
Retirement
In order to establish best practice in any area of HR, recent developments in legislative parameters needs to be considered and researched to determine compliance, governance, and effectiveness of a policy or procedure.
For each area relating to separation & termination consideration should be given to legal requirements. The starting point is checking in fine details all the applicable awards and agreement obligations. Legislation should also be referred to along with National Employment Standards (NES).
Research goals should then be identified so information can be organised appropriately. As part of this it would be useful to make reference to original goals including specific areas of concern.
As best practice relates to