2. RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, EMPLOYMENT ARRANGEMENTS, LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR EMPLOYING STAFF

3.  Employment arrangements  Investigation questions

4.  Conditions of employment  Award  Remuneration  Employment arrangements  Employer of choice

5.  Condition of employment – the wages, hours of work and other benefits such as leave entitlements to a particular person.  Award – a legally binding agreement that sets out the minimum wages and conditions for a job in a particular industry.  Remuneration – all forms of pay or rewards to employees arising from their employment. It has two main components direct financial payments in the form of wages, salaries, incentives, commissions and bonuses and indirect payments in the form of financial benefits such as motor vehicles, parking or subsidised childcare.

6.  Common employment arrangements:  Full-time work  Part-time work  Casual work  Short-term contract

7.  Using your textbook CD and the internet give a definition in your own words of the common employment arrangements:  Full-time work  Part-time work  Casual work  Short-term contact

8.  Employer of choice – a business which offers such attractive benefits and conditions that people actively seek out jobs with it, and will in fact change jobs to take up a position with the business.

9.  Do Activity 8.5 – Investigation activities from pp. 15-16 of your textbook CD  Combine it with your employment arrangement definitions  Submit to me at: pkelleher@ubermagna.com.au pkelleher@ubermagna.com.au

10.  The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations website should help  http://www.workplaceauthority.gov.au http://www.workplaceauthority.gov.au  Don’t forgot to submit your work  Next lesson – Employee induction and motivation