Employment Proposals Set to Impact Australian Employers in 2021
2021 is set to be a bumper year for employment law changes with a number of wide-ranging proposals in the pipeline. The Coalition government’s Industrial Relations reform bill, which was unveiled at the end of 2020, is likely to have...
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Sweeping Changes to Casual Employment Announced
Fair Work Act amendments could impact more than 2.6 million casual employees in Australia. The Federal Government is set to introduce to sweeping changes to the country’s industrial relations laws, which are expected to have a profound impact on the...
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Coceptive Announced as Finalists In Local Business Awards
Coceptive Recruitment has been recognised by the Canberra 2020 Local Business Awards, taking out a place in the 'Professional Services Category as a finalist. The Canberra based recruitment agency is looking forward to sharing the stage with the some of...
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Why This Country is Calling For a Six-Hour Workday
The ministers’ approach to work/life balance is a lesson for other countries. Top officials in Finland are renewing calls to adopt the six-hour workday as well as similar measures that aim to promote a better work/life balance for Finnish employees....
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From Rock Bottom to Rising Star in 12 Months - Our Founder's Story
Coceptive Recruitment Founder & Senior Associate Luke Hemmings is on top of his game and yet he feels like he is just getting started. He explains his story and journey of success in his own words. Rising in the ranks,...
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Coceptive Announces New Partnership With Vincere
Coceptive Recruitment is thrilled to announce that our firm has forged a commercial partnership with Recruitment Software provider Vincere. This relationship presents some exciting opportunities for the two organisations to collaborate in areas of development, marketing and client and candidate...
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One of Australia’s Best Joins The Coceptive Recruitment Team
Industry veteran and super star Copywriter/ Journalist Dayarne Smith takes the next step in her career. The elite performer has carved out a formidable reputation in Australia for her incredible work ethic and energy to not only deliver the best...
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JobKeeper 2.0: Here’s The Insights & What You Need to Know
The JobKeeper wage subsidy will continue until March 2021, but it won’t look the same after September. The end date of the federal wage subsidy JobKeeper has been postponed from September this year until March 2021. There were rumblings that...
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Luke Hemmings named finalist in this Year’s Australian HR Awards
Coceptive Recruitment’s Luke Hemmings has been named Australian HR Rising Star finalist – in the nationally recognised Australian HR Awards 2020. Now in its seventh year, the awards celebrate the best of the best in the Australian HR industry and is the...
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Providing a COVID-Safe Environment
We’re aligning all aspects of our Canberra office workplace to the practical and well thought out Safe Work Australia guidelines. These cover everything from building access to sanitisers to social distancing. What we are doing: Limiting our meeting room capacity...
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Stand Downs & Redundancies: Are There Any Other Options In Light of COVID-19?
We are in a crazy time, without precedent. The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has led to confusion and shutdowns across many industries. This has in-turn led to a slow-down of economic activity for many businesses. We know that this will pass. ...
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) – What Employers Need to Know
We were recently asked by a small business what they should do to help prepare for staffing impacts on their business for a potential Coronavirus Pandemic in Australia. Our goal is to provide you with a reputable and straightforward source...
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Sacking An Employee Via SMS Or Socials, Is It Legal Or Illegal?
Sacking an employee is one of the most challenging HR tasks any manager undertakes. With all the changes to communications styles, with a greater reliance on text, Facebook Messenger, Yammer or WhatsApp as forms of team communication, can they be...
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Bushfires: What Employment Conditions Apply?
Right now it appears as if half of Australia is on fire or covered in choking smoke. It can be challenging finding out what entitlements should be paid to employees and volunteer firefighters. Here is a quick list of resources:...
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