by Karen Arnold | May 19, 2026 | HR Foundations & Compliance
Most businesses do not ignore HR risk because they do not care. They tend to ignore it because nothing is on fire. The team is showing up. Payroll is being processed. Employees are generally doing their jobs. Contracts are sitting in files. Policies exist somewhere....
by Karen Arnold | Jul 24, 2025 | HR Foundations & Compliance
HR Delays Are a Ticking Time Bomb — Especially Now In the world of growing businesses, HR is often the first thing to fall behind. Not because leaders don’t care, but because they’re caught in the crush of competing priorities: service delivery, sales, funding,...
by Karen Arnold | Apr 7, 2025 | HR Foundations & Compliance
Compliance isn’t just a checklist—it’s your secret weapon to a productive, stress-free workplace. Here’s what busy HR managers and business owners need to know this year: 1. Wage Theft: Mistakes Are Now Criminal Wage theft isn’t a simple...
by Greg Arnold | Oct 10, 2022 | HR Foundations & Compliance
For the newest generation of workers, social media has been part of most, if not all of their lives. Their attitudes and habits in using social media are quite different from other generations. What is acceptable to one generation might be viewed totally differently...
by Greg Arnold | Nov 8, 2020 | HR Foundations & Compliance
I recently spoke at the Gold Coast Small Business Expo about the importance of policies and procedures and how critical they can be in the workplace to set the standard for behaviour and performance; but moreover how important they can be in the mitigation against...
by Greg Arnold | Oct 6, 2020 | Employment Law & Workplace Relations, HR Foundations & Compliance
Many of our clients who have been to our Performance Management, Discipline and Termination Seminars would be familiar with Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) and how important they are in the performance management process and possible termination of staff. Those...
