HRA Flashcards

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What are the USP’s of HR Advance? (14)

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  1. Completely covered: Access to the largest pool of legally compliant HR related documents in Australia (200+). SIZE
  2. Continuously updated: by Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors. UP-TO-DATE
  3. Tailored to your business: Click of your mouse documentation. CUSTOMISATION & AUTOMATISATION
  4. Access anytime, anywhere: Cloud-based storage CLOUD BASED
  5. HR Explainer/knowledge centre: A vast knowledgebase to cover over 300 HR related topics. KNOWLEDGEBASE
  6. Time savings: More time to focus on your core business TIME
  7. Legally compliant: Bypass the need for lawyers. EXPERTISE & COMPLIANCE
  8. Rosters and Timesheets: Create your team’s shifts in minutes. ROSTERING
  9. Employee MGT: Keep your employee’s documentation and personal information in one place, making on-boarding and record keeping simple. EVIDENCE
  10. Workplace Advice Line: Access to a team of HR and legal experts. ADVICE LINE
  11. Get started quickly: Adding employees 5 ways. EASE
  12. Inductions made simple: Create complete employee induction kits. INDUCTIONS
  13. Hole-proof evidence: Track your employees’ acceptance to company policies. TRACKING
  14. First of its kind: HR Advance has been refined extensively based on real user feedback. CREDIBILITY
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SIZE

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The most commonly used documents, contracts, awards, and policies can be found. If there is a specific document you are looking for still missing, it can be added by calling the Workplace Advice Line.

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Up-to-date

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Documents are reviewed and endorsed by the award winning specialist workplace relations law firm Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors. If there are any changes in legislations or improvements to the templates, you are advised so your documents are always up to date with changes to law and policy.

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Customisation & Automatisation

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You have the ability to create documents, including procedures that are customised to your business. Using the inbuilt wizard, you can determine which documentation is right for a particular employment situation.

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Cloud based

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Cloud-based storage makes it even easier to manage your HR, Workplace Relations and Safety needs anytime, anywhere. Your HR related data is available to employees no matter where they are in the world. Cloud based solutions save a business on average 15 to 17% in operational costs, IT spending, and IT maintenance costs and lead to a 19 to 21% growth in time to market, company growth, and process efficiency (acc. To Vanson Bourne “The Business Impact of the Cloud”).

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Knowledgable

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The knowledgebase in HR Advance provides you with explanations and definitions of over 300 employment-related topics to assist you with the issues covered by the HR Advance documents. Access to in-depth articles, infographics, video and more – build upon your HR/IR expertise.

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Time

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  1. Most managers in SME businesses wear several hats, which makes it very hard to focus on your core business functions. Competition never sleeps, particularly not if you focus on a side function When your documentation is up-to-date you can spend the time and money you’ve saved doing what you do best – growing your business.
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Expertise & Compliance

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Backed by legal advice from the award-winning law firm, Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors, which won the Workplace Relations and Employment Team of the Year award at the 2016 Australian Law Awards.

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Easy rostering / timesheets

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Powerful rostering and timesheets to create and share your team’s shifts in minutes. Built-in Award interpretation looks after pay-rate compliance, plus integration with your own payroll system. Drag and drop functionality means creating rosters is super easy. And you can monitor the actual cost of your roster as you build it, and before you publish your shifts, to make sure you keep within your budget. Our rostering tool automatically factors in penalty rates, time periods and other pay rate components for 10 Awards, giving you peace of mind that you’re paying staff correctly and freeing you up from hours of calculations. Export compliant award interpreted timesheets to your payroll software ready to be processed in your next pay run. There’s no need for manual reconciliation or data double-handling from one system to the other.

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Recordkeeping

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Keep your employee’s documentation and personal information in one place, making on-boarding and record keeping simple. Manage all employee information in a centralised online database so you’ll always be able to retrieve any HR document whenever you need it. Plus, you can pre-populate employee information when you create new documents from within HR Advance ensuring everything is accurate and up-to-date. Store documents such as employment contracts and accepted company policies against individual employee profiles. Upload existing files from your computer, create and store notes, or create other new documents from our comprehensive library of HR templates, letters, and forms. Customise employee profiles by configuring the fields your company needs. So, along with name, job title, department, salary, start date, birthday, home address and so on, you can store information about the teams the individual is a part of, it’s up to you.

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Advice line

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Handling over 20,000 cases each year, our experienced team will help resolve your workplace relations questions. Whether it’s advice on Award rates of pay, the right process for termination of employment, redundancy, personal leave, long service leave, or any other employment related HR issue, our experts are just a phone call away. Backed by Australian Business Lawyers and Advisors they’re always ready to help you and give you the right advice to stay compliant. Tell us about your HR challenge and we’ll give you clear, easy to understand advice, letting you know exactly where you stand, so you can make the best decision for your business. With more than four decades of experience in advisory roles, our team is right on top of issues that concern businesses just like yours. As a Premium subscribers to HR Advance you are entitled to 5 Workplace Advice Line calls a year. There are upgraded options available. A team of HR & legal professionals with …

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Ease

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You have 5 Ways to add employees: Manually, via Spreadsheet, via synchronisation with Xero or MYOB, or we do it for you.

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Inductions

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Tailor your induction kit specifically for your business needs with access to templates for the contract of employment, welcome letter, code of conduct, WHS responsibilities, other workplace policies, and many more.

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Tracking / evidence

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Requesting acceptance from employees ensures that your business meets its requirement under the Fair Work system. HR Advance makes this easy. Simply send a system email to employees, inviting them to access the employee portal and log their acceptance, or alternatively, upload a scanned copy of signed acceptances in bulk. Ensure new employees are aware of and acknowledge your policies in their first days of employment by incorporating policy acceptance into your induction program.

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Credibility

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First platform of its kind, released in 2006 when the Howard Government’s Work Choices was about to be released. As the First, it has also had the longest time to be revised and updated, and the greatest number of revision based on user feedback. Based on market needs, your requests, and changes to legislation.

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