PCS will review your existing employment contracts to ensure they are compliant with Awards and legislation, clearly structured, and aligned with your operational requirements. We can also provide you with templates for easy use. With workplace policies and procedures, PCS shifts organisational thinking surrounding workplace policies beyond a “tick-the-box” approach and conducts meaningful evaluations of existing policies, identifies gaps, and designs practical frameworks that support organisational strategy and safeguard legal compliance.

PCS will guide and assist you through every step in a separation or termination of employment. Whether this involves poor performance, redundancy, misconduct, medical incapacity or “grey” reasons such as someone being a poor culture fit, PCS will ensure that your team are well-prepared and well-advised with scripts, plug-and-play documents and all necessary advice.

We can provide a comprehensive suite of services to your organisation if you engage, or are considering the engagement, of, independent contractors. We assist with assessing the suitability of these engagements and arrangements taking into account ongoing developments in the law, and we can prepare new independent contractor agreements, or review and refresh existing agreements.

We can guide and assist your organisation with employment issues as they arise before, during and after an asset or share sale/purchase. We provide input into due diligence, advise on the employment liabilities on a transfer of business, prepare relevant employee communications and contracts for the time of transfer of employment, and provide strategic guidance on effective change management and workforce integration.

We can assist your organisation with the pro-active management of the impact and challenges associated with long term medical absenteeism. We give strategic advice to address your organisation’s concerns in a manner consistent with its obligations under applicable workplace laws such as work health safety and anti-discrimination legislation.

We can advise your organisation in relation to protecting confidential information, client relationships, and other business interests during and following the employment. We draft confidentiality and restraint provisions, advise on their enforceability, assist to manage risks arising on termination, and provide options to address suspected misuse of information or breaches of post-employment obligations to protect your organisation’s business interests.

For organisations looking to establish in Australia, PCS can assist you with the preparation of employment agreement templates, identify applicable industrial instruments, provide standard or bespoke corporate policy kits and provide training to ensure compliance obligations are met.

The PCS Culture Audit allows your organisation to identify cultural and systemic issues  through a process of diagnostic and substantive analysis. Using our signature “V-S-C Framework”, your organisation will be put in the best position to be “high-performing”. The project combines a series of staff interviews, reviews of materials such as exit interview data, employee engagement surveys and other relevant data. A written report may then be presented to identified stakeholders with clear recommendations on how any gaps can be bridged by your organisation.

PCS has specialised expertise in working with organisations to develop, review and refine their industrial relations strategy. Our approach in holistically understanding our client’s objectives when it comes to their business, culture and approach to third parties sees us as being integrated into the core strategic team often well before an enterprise agreement is due for renewal. We also work with clients who may be faced with “attention” from unions for the first time.

The consequences for organisations failing to comply with their legal obligations under the Fair Work Act, awards or enterprise agreements can be significant and in some instances can involve individuals being personally prosecuted. With a very active Fair Work Ombudsman, PCS regularly assists organisations through conducting audits that will result in organisations understanding where they may be non-compliant and then working with you to remedy these areas.

Every organisation, regardless of their size or industry, should have a “People Plan” as an integrated part of their business strategy. PCS can work with your organisation, utilising its signature “People Management Quadrants” paradigm, to develop a people plan that works for you and your organisation.

PCS can conduct a detailed briefing session with Project Lead, undertake a document review of existing remunerative structures, questionnaire and interviews with employees (selected by the company), written report regarding SWOT analysis and recommendations, debriefing session with Project Lead. This package can be modified to suit your organisation’s needs.

PCS undertakes a comprehensive consideration of your organisation’s People/HR Strategy (which can include a pre-session briefing, half-day facilitated session, review of all relevant documentation and follow-up summary report).

This package can be modified to suit your organisation’s needs.

PCS conducts independent effectiveness evaluations of your organisation’s Board (or equivalent) using its unique PMQs and V-S-C methodology and high-performance frameworks. PCS subsequently works with your organisation on implementation ensuring your Board is performing optimally and delivering value to all stakeholders.

The evaluation cover’s the following topics:

• clarity of strategic focus or priorities of the Board
• role of the Board and understanding a Board member’s responsibilities
• meeting administration and effectiveness, including quality of documents
• relationship between the Board and the Executive
• accountability and behaviours of Board members