Master the employment law that trips up Australian businesses, learn how to build a workplace people stay in, then get an ER advisor on call for six months to handle whatever comes next.
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A quick word from Matt on who this is for and exactly what you walk away with.
Most owners and managers learn employment law the hard way — after the mistake. This is the cheaper way to learn it, with backup for when it gets real.
"Is this contract even compliant?" You inherited templates off the internet and quietly hope they hold up.
Award rates and classifications are a fog. You're underpaying or overpaying and not sure which is worse.
A difficult performance issue is sitting in your inbox. You know you should act, but one wrong step feels like an unfair dismissal claim.
2026 keeps changing the rules. Payday Super, award updates, portable long service leave — and no one handed you the memo.
Day one gets your foundations and compliance bulletproof. Day two is about building a workplace people want to stay in — culture, performance, reward, and the numbers that let you see what's coming. Templates and trackers go home with you.
Modern award vs. award-free, the clauses that protect you, and the ones quietly working against you.
Read an award without losing a day, get classifications right, avoid the underpayment trap.
Offers, probation, record-keeping and the paperwork that keeps you covered from day one.
Warnings, documentation, and difficult conversations done properly — so you can act with confidence.
Termination, redundancy and deeds of release — what makes a dismissal "fair," and the numbers that matter.
Payday Super, the right to disconnect, portable long service leave and award movements — in plain terms.
What actually drives culture (beyond the posters) — values that mean something, the leadership habits that set the tone, and how to shift a culture that's drifted.
Goal-setting, useful feedback, and review rhythms that lift performance instead of ticking a box — for a team of 5 or 50.
What good looks like beyond pay: structuring reward, recognition that motivates, and keeping your best people without blowing the budget.
The handful of people stats worth tracking — turnover, cost-per-hire, time-to-fill, engagement — how to capture them simply, and how to read them so you can forecast growth and spot problems early.
Use your numbers to plan ahead: when to hire, what it'll cost, and how to build a team that scales with the business instead of lagging behind it.
Open clinic. Bring the real situation you're stuck on and work it through in the room.
For six months after the workshop, you get an Employee Relations advisor in your corner — so when a real situation lands, you're never guessing alone.
Jump on whenever you're stuck. Get a real answer from an ER advisor on the exact situation in front of you.
6 months of accessBring any question and keep moving forward — no question too small, no being left to figure it out alone.
Specific, current, and tailored to your business — not generic articles that don't fit your situation.
Matt has spent his career untangling employment relations for businesses that can't afford to get it wrong — including as Head of HR across 400+ franchisees and 900+ stores at Domino's Australia & New Zealand. He built People Department to put that same calibre of advice within reach of SMEs, franchisees and multi-site operators.
He runs these days the way he advises clients: direct, practical, and grounded in what actually holds up.
"Matt walked us through a redundancy we were dreading. What felt like a legal minefield became a clear, calm process — and it held up."
"We'd been classifying staff wrong for two years. Matt caught it before it became a back-pay disaster. Worth every cent."
Here's what's included with your seat.
Thu 23 & Fri 24 July · Brisbane CBD · 18 seats
Sit through the morning of day one. If it's not worth your time, tell us at lunch and we'll refund you in full — no awkwardness, no questions.
An unfair dismissal claim, an underpayment back-pay bill, a contract that doesn't hold — any one dwarfs the price of a seat. And you'll have an expert on call for six months after.
Apply For A Seat →18 seats · Thu 23 & Fri 24 July · Brisbane CBD