Best practice guides

Our best practice guides aim to help small businesses and employees with a range of workplace issues. By adopting best practice initiatives, employers and employees can achieve happier, fairer and more productive workplaces.

Each guide has a checklist to help achieve best practice.

Our best practice guides cover the following topics:

• Work and family
• The right to request flexible working arrangements
• Consultation and cooperation in the workplace
• Use of individual flexibility arrangements
• A guide for young workers
• An employer’s guide to employing young workers
• Gender pay equity
• Small business and the Fair Work Act
• Workplace privacy
• Managing underperformance
• Effective dispute resolution
• Improving workplace productivity through bargaining
• Parental leave.

What to do next

• Learn more about best practice by visiting our Online learning centre

Help for small business

• Find tools, resources and information you might need on our Small business page.

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