Getting the people management part of a dairy farm sorted and keeping it up to date can be a sizeable task, especially if you are new to employing people. Employment Basics is a fully supported online learning experience designed to assist you to implement and understand what you need to successfully employ someone in your business.

The course provides you with the skills to attract and recruit the right people, onboard and retain employees in your business. Employment Basics also introduces your legal responsibilities as an employer, payroll, employee entitlements and includes topics around compliance requirements and termination.

Employment Basics aims to grow your confidence and awareness of employment practices to use in your business to create positive, safe and capable dairy workplaces.

• create effective job advertisements, shortlist and interview potential farm employees

• create and execute onboarding strategies for new farm employees.

• identify effective strategies for staff appraisal and use this information for building further training

• articulate employee retention strategies including coaching and upskilling

• apply best practices around payroll and WorkSafe

• differentiate between the legal requirements of employees and contractors

• articulate best practice around employee termination.