Top tools and templates to drive business compliance and success

The Victorian Chamber’s resources are up-to-date and compliant, covering essential areas such as Fair Work Act Legislation, recruitment checklists, employment contracts, workplace behaviour policies and salary benefit guidelines.

Gain access to a comprehensive suite of HR and business resources at your fingertips, ensuring you stay aligned with the latest legal standards and best practices.

Top tools and templates

Our top 10 most searched areas of interest cover the following areas:

1. Performance management: Set clear and achievable goals for effective performance management, including how to provide direction, support mental health and reduce stress and uncertainty.
2. Health safety and wellbeing: Enhance the safety knowledge and practices of employees, providing training objectives, methods, and schedules to ensure all staff are equipped to maintain a safe and healthy work environment.
3. Closing the Loopholes – Right to Disconnect: Learn about new legislation that allows an employee to reasonably refuse to respond to employers or clients outside of working hours, and how to implement policies and procedures around the right to disconnect.
4. Disciplinary and warnings: Navigate conduct and/or behavioural issues, and follow correct processes during disciplinary or performance matters.
5. Code of conduct: Set the rules and standards of conduct within a workplace, ensuring they are effective and compliant.
6. Discrimination, harassment and bullying: Set the behavioural standard and definition of discrimination, harassment and bullying, addressing how the business will manage any issues that arise.
7. Probation: Outline and set the process of undergoing a probationary period (and review) with employees.
8. Employment contracts: Craft an employment contract, covering all required terms and conditions of employment in the contract.
9. Redundancy/termination: Understand the redundancy process and when terminating an employee’s employment, ensuring compliance with legislation.
10. Annual Leave: Properly calculate annual leave, personal leave (including carer’s and sick leave) and long service leave – including entitlements.

Why are tools and templates essential for businesses?

1. Compliance: These documents help ensure compliance to legislation and regulatory requirements, reducing the risk of legal issues around employment contracts, enterprise agreements, workplace behaviours and more.
2. Efficiency: By streamlining processes such as recruitment and onboarding, tools and templates save time and resources, allowing employers and team members to focus on running the business.
3. Accuracy: These resources reduce the likelihood of errors when calculating entitlements, following protocols and more, ensuring that all necessary steps are followed correctly.
4. Consistency: Standardised templates ensure uniformity in documents and procedures, crucial for maintaining coordination and alignment within an organisation.
5. Professionalism: They promote a cohesive and professional work environment by providing clear guidelines and expectations for workplace behaviours and practices.

How the Victorian Chamber can help

The Victorian Chamber has built this comprehensive library of tools and templates and continues to monitor, update and add new ones to reflect changing legislation and employer requirements.

Victorian Chamber Employer, Entrepreneur and Committee for Melbourne members enjoy free access to selected templates. Non-members can also access some free templates and paid resources from as little as $25.

For further assistance on how to comply with business obligations or to discuss any queries, contact the Victorian Chamber’s Workplace Relations Advice Line on (03) 8662 5222.