Today’s working environment is challenging for a lot of SME employers. Work may not be consistent, challenges finding the right staff, retaining your staff, IR issues, OSH issues are just of a few of the headaches I hear from business owners and managers.

There are a lot of companies out there that claim to be RPO providers. When RPO started to grow in popularity, just about every company that had anything to do with recruiting or recruiting functions added recruitment process outsourcing to their list of services.

Unfortunately, imposing disciplinary action on an employee for taking sick days can get you into a lot of hot water. The key message here is that sacking a person for taking too many sick days is probably going to land you in trouble.

Here are some ideas to help you deal with a regularly absent employee, who you suspect is abusing their entitlement to sick leave.

Being able to openly communicate with your colleagues will create great working relationships that will be fun and in turn lead to high productivity.

If there is one bad apple, it can hurt the enthusiasm of the entire office. So what is open communication? In a nut shell, open communication occurs when all parties are able to express ideas to one another, such as in a conversation or debate.

Challenges

The business conditions in today’s economic environment have created unique challenges for companies to remain competitive and viable. In terms of the impacts on the Human Resources and in particular how a company resources and recruit’s personnel we are seeing a change in the way we deliver traditional recruitment strategies.

I was taught from a young age that the ‘fake it 'til you make it’ mentality was the only way to become successful.

I was a manger in a retail store and every day my team and I would read out the ’10 steps to a sale’ to get us motivated to sell products and engage with customers for the day.

In my close to 10 years with RecruitWest I have always recommended to new employees to be smart about their super.  Sure, retirement seems like a long way away when you’re 21 years old starting out in the working world, but a few simple steps will ensure you have that account ticking over rather than a mess of accounts with small balances being eaten away by monthly fees.

Before we start myth busting, it’s important the stress from the outset that what is contained below only applies to recruitment firms that operate ethically- and I’m sure much to the surprise of many, there are a lot of companies out there doing the right thing.