Managing Workforce Reductions During the Pandemic
Issues covered include: resizing, redundancy, stand down, incentivising leave, part-time, reward programs, support, organisational strategies
Description
Examine how to navigate reduced hours, pay cuts, split rosters, incentivising leave, and part-time work options. In addition, consider risks and strategies related to managing remaining and outgoing staff and how to effectively and efficiently deal with workforce reductions and changed employment conditions by hearing from both a legal and a mental health expert.
Attend and earn 1.5 CPD Units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Resizing your workforce through redundancies and stand down may be a critical first step, but what next? Examine other levers for workforce efficiencies and maintaining staff safety and wellbeing such as:
- Reduced working hours and pay cuts
- Flexible work practices
- Working from home (and how to manage remote working effectively)
- Split rosters to reduce who is in the office at any one time
- Incentivising leave
- Exploring part-time work options
- Changing operating hours to reflect changes in demand
- Targeted recognition and reward programs
- Managing constant change and the impact of the pandemic on staff wellbeing
Employee stress factors as a consequence of workforce reductions and constant change. Explore critical risks in this area including:
- Support for outgoing staff
- The psychological impact on the remaining staff: survivor trauma
- Organisational strategies to prevent and deal with survivor trauma
- How to manage your staff and yourself when dealing with workforce reductions and changed employment conditions
Presented by Cilla Robinson, Partner, Clayton Utz and Kim Ambor, Psychologist
Presenters
Kim Ambor
Kim is a highly experienced and registered Organisational Psychologist with more than 20 years’ experience consulting to and working within large public and private organisations. Kim’s expertise lies in Facilitation, Counselling, Executive Coaching, Talent Management and Outplacement. Kim has worked in in-house roles which included Talent Management, Capability, HR and Training. Kim is an experienced and dynamic facilitator and has designed and delivered over 100 training programs across a multitude of clients and across various countries.
Cilla Robinson
Cilla Robinson has over 18 years' experience as an employment lawyer, specialising in discrimination and industrial relations, but works with her clients on all aspects of the employee life cycle. She has deep expertise in workforce transformation and industrial strategy, frequently helping clients during volatile and unpredictable times to best leverage growth and opportunities for enacting people and business objectives. Cilla often helps clients navigate the complexity of dealing with ill and injured employees, and in particular the challenges inherent within organisations with low levels of psychosocial safety or high incidents of staff with mental illness or mental health problems is a focus of her practice. Cilla has broad industry experience and works with both private sector clients and government clients.