What we do

If you’re not aware of your responsibilities under the Fair Work Act 2009 and sexual harassment and antidiscrimination laws – you’re headed for trouble.

Tools

• HR audit templates
• Standard HR policy templates

What we do

We have extensive experience in developing policies, procedure and guidelines for both the private and public sectors. We work with clients to ensure these reflect their specific requirements while adhering to best practice and legal requirements.

Tools

• Employee contract templates
• Targeted workshops and training programs responsibilities under the Fair Work Act with a strong focus on sexual harassment, bullying, antidiscrimination and general performance responsibilities

What we do

The Futures Group develops HR strategies that are aligned to your organisational and departmental goals – resulting is a more focused and committed workforce and an increased return on your human capital investment.

We prefer to commence by doing a HR Audit to determine how well your HR strategy supports your business objectives.

If your objectives are not clear, we will help facilitate the creation of HR Strategic and Operational Plans that link to the business strategy. We measure their effectiveness by developing key performance indicators, ongoing monitoring and a reporting framework.

Throughout the process, we listen and learn to find out how we can assist, identify gaps, and provide meaningful feedback and advice based on our extensive experience and knowledge.

Tools

• Targeted workshops and training programs responsibilities under the Fair Work Act with a strong focus on sexual harassment, bullying, antidiscrimination and general performance responsibilities
• HR strategic planning framework

What we do

Many organisations need an independent review of their workforce and want to create an unbiased reward system based solely on job content.

The Futures Group develops targeted job evaluation processes to match your industry award, EBA or provides job evaluation and classification services for many government and private sector organisations. We provide stand-alone systems to be used internally by HR departments or once we have established a system, we can manage it and provide independent advice, classification reviews and reports for all job levels.

Tools

• JOES© job classification program

What we do

JOES© is an on-line program that allows easy migration of older schemes and ensures compliance with relevant awards and pay legislation. System scoring was derived through analysis of the most widely used evaluation schemes available globally (Hay, Towers, Mercers) and adopting the weightings used by these schemes into JOES© using the geometric progression principle. The JOES© system has been extensively run in parallel with all of the most widely used schemes to ensure parity of scoring with them.

Tools

• JOES© job classification program

What we do

We can customise the JOES© system to meet your individual company requirements and can undertake the work to amalgamate different award conditions and pay levels to cover all roles in one system.

For WA government agencies, The Futures Group has adapted the BI/PERS classification system to JOES© to remove the paper-based process with a software program that:

• Stores all the relevant information
• Calculates the factor scoring
• Allows work to be tracked and salary modelling and job descriptions to be developed
• Provides a repository for future reference.

The system can be managed by HR departments and allows further customisation to meet an individual organisation’s needs.

Tools

• JOES© BI/PERS program

What we do

The Futures Group provides independent and impartial investigation services for situations ranging from dealing with informal complaints to significant and complex formal investigations. Our consultants are highly qualified and recognised in this field.

We systematically gather the facts, sort out all the details, analyse the information and reach a conclusion that leads to action within the workplace; or a comprehensive response to an external complainant or agency such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The internal or external perception of how thoroughly and objectively that investigation has been conducted is critical.

What we do

The Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 aims to improve and promote equality for both women and men in the workplace. It focuses on:

• equal Pay
• equal Support (for example, family)
• Australia’s productivity and efficiency

Tools

• Job Evaluation system

What we do

The Futures Group can assist you by:

• Compiling the data and producing the report. We can also analyse the data to assess the gender equity of your organisation and also perform a Pay Gap Analysis
• Providing advice and developing relevant policies, strategies and improvement initiatives
• Providing Equal Opportunity training
• Developing a communication strategy to ensure the relevant stakeholders are informed, have access to, and are provided with, the opportunity to comment on the report.