Performance Management Essentials

Managing underperformance comes with legal risks because Australian parliaments protect employees from unfair and unreasonable disciplinary action. This means that your employees have legal rights that allow them to challenge the way they are treated in relation to performance issues.

These documents were created by the expert team behind the Employment Law Practical Handbook published by Portner Press. This team of workplace relations lawyers and HR experts have decades of experience assisting employers in their legal obligations and rights, and HR best practice processes.

The following two eBooks and 11 documents are included in this package:

• Managing Underperformance – eBook
• Managing Misconduct – eBook
• Checklist: Management Guideline for Unsatisfactory Performance
• Template: Letter Confirming Successful Completion of Probation
• Template: Record of Performance Discussion
• Template: Formal Warning Letter
• Template: Final Warning Letter
• Template: Dismissal Letter
• Checklist: End of probationary period
• Checklist: How to lawfully demote an employee
• Step-by-Step: How to address employee performance issues arising from an illness or injury
• Step-by-Step: How to counsel an underperforming employee before dismissal
• Step-by-Step: How to discipline employees who are frequently late or absent