In our experience, the lead up to Christmas and the New Year is
when employers often look ahead to their staffing needs for the
upcoming year. Often, it is at this time that employers identify
employment issues.
It might be an employee who's not performing, it may be a
need to run a different staffing structure, or an employee may have
done something wrong. The reality is that processes are needed to
deal with all of these issues and they take time.
Often, employers come to us in the weeks immediately prior to
Christmas, wanting to address these issues so that they can start
the year with a "clean slate". Whilst there are a number
of options in our toolbox, it is certainly better if employers get
onto these issues early and commence a process to deal with these
issues away from the hustle and bustle of the pre-Christmas
rush.
