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Home  :  Managing people in challenging times

Managing people in challenging times

Taking care of yourself, your family, staff, neighbours and running your farm business depends on being in a healthy and balanced place. Fatigue and stress can make it difficult to make smart decisions or to treat people as well as you would normally mean to.

Managing people can be challenging as situations can change quickly and this can impact on both employee requirements and expectations.

If you employ people, the current situation may impact on their future employment within your farm business. It’s important to keep the lines of the communication open so your staff feel informed and supported.

Before doing anything

Get in touch with your Regional Development Program (website)

Think about your current set up: Managing your farm team (PDF) and
how to deal with changing employment conditions (PDF)

Consider the employment arrangements and systems you have in place, including employee entitlements: Understanding employee’s final pay (PDF)

Keep yourself and your people safe: watch a quick video

If you do need to make changes, be aware of your compliance responsibilities as an employer and seek professional advice via your RDP.

Resources

ESKi

Do you have an Employment Starter Kit folder? It provides easy access to the information and documents you need to employ someone. If you employee people on your dairy farm – order your ESKi folder or make sure your ESKi is up to date

Farmer Assistance

Many dairy farmers will face challenging times as a consequence of ongoing market volatility and dry seasonal conditions.

What Format
Managing your people during tough times FAQ PDF
Understanding your employee’s final pay FAQ PDF
Farm safety in tight times video website 
Farm safety in tough times fact sheet  PDF
Resilience fact sheet PDF
ESKi (Employment Starter Kit initiative) web page

In This Module

  • Pay rates
  • Where am I now?
  • Employees
  • Managing people in challenging times
  • Federal industrial laws
  • State industrial laws
    • SA state industrial laws
    • WA state industrial laws
    • Vic state industrial laws
    • Tasmanian state industrial laws
    • Qld State Industrial Laws
    • New South Wales state industrial laws
  • Which award?
  • Pastoral Award 2020
  • Minimum entitlements
  • National Employment Standards
  • Share dairy farming
  • Hiring people from overseas
  • Employment contracts
  • Workplace agreements
  • No award or agreement?
  • Working out a package
  • Workers compensation
    • Workers compensaton WA
    • Workers compensation NSW
    • Workers compensation Vic
    • Workers compensation Tas
    • Workers compensation SA
    • Workers compensation Qld
    • Workers compensation ACT
  • Dispute resolution
  • Termination
  • Record keeping
  • Family members
  • Independent contractors
  • Contracts and Agreements

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