HR documents and templates are the backbone of the procedures that govern everything from onboarding an employee to entering into agreements with their new employers and business partners. Companies are strongly encouraged to have HR document templates available, organised, and accessible to help streamline the inner workings of today’s challenging business landscape.
Employment Hero contains documentation regularly audited, reviewed, and updated by domestic legal professionals. We also publish, update and edit it internally for the benefit of our clients and to make work easier.
Document updates
Q1 2025 (January - March)
- New templates
- AU Notice of acceptance of employee notification (Non-Small Businesses) - to be use by non-small businesses only
- AU Notice of rejection of employee notification (Non-Small Businesses) - to be use by non-small businesses only
Q1 2024 (January - March)
- Replaced and updated Fair Work Information Statement document
- Fair Work Information Statement effective January 2024
Q2 2024 (April - June)
- Replaced and updated to capture super guarantee updates effective 1 July 2024
- AU Letter for Superannuation Changes
Q3 2024 (July - September)
- Replaced and updated Fair Work Information Statement document
- Fair Work Information Statement effective July 2024
- Inclusions added to reflect increase to government funded paid parental leave and workplace delegate training leave (optional clause)
- AU Leave Policy
- Addition of new policy template
- Right to Disconnect Policy
- Update of all AU employment contracts to include optional "Employee Right to Disconnect" clause
- AU Employment Contract - Casual Employees
- AU Employment Contract - Full Time Hourly Employees
- AU Employment Contract - Full Time Salaried Employees
- AU Employment Contract - Part Time Hourly Employees
- AU Employment Contract - Part Time Salaried Employees
Q1 2023 (January - March)
- Title Changes
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AU Bullying Policy
- Formerly AU Workplace Anti-Bullying and Anti-Harassment Policy
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AU Equal Employment Opportunity & Discrimination Policy
- Formerly AU Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Anti-Discrimination and Harassment Policy
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AU Bullying Policy
- Inclusions added to reflect the changes to Family & Domestic Violence Leave
- AU Leave Policy
- Inclusions to reflect the changes to the Respect@Work Bill.
- AU Equal Employment Opportunity & Discrimination Policy
- Replaced and updated to reflect changes to the National Employment Standards (NES)
- Fair Work Information Statement effective February 2023
Q2 2023 (April - June)
- Replaced and updated to reflect changes to the Superannuation Guarantee Rate of 11%
- AU Letter for Superannuation Changes on 1 July 2023
- Replaced and updated Fair Work Information Statement document
- Fair Work Information Statement effective June 2023
- Inclusions to reflect changes to Public Holiday working requirements and directives to take annual leave in line with the FWA 2009
- AU Leave Policy
- Inclusions to reflect changes on when to annual leave and provide closer alignment with FWA for additional clarity on this topic
- AU Full-time Employment Agreement (salaried)
- AU Part-time Employment Agreement (hourly)
- AU Part-time Employment Agreement (salaried)
- Inclusions to reflect changes to Public Holiday working requirements and directives to take annual leave in line with the FWA 2009
- AU Casual Employment Agreement
- New guidelines and policy on Gender Affirmation within the workplace.
- AU Gender Affirmation Policy
- AU Gender Affirmation Guidelines
- Inclusions to reflect the changes to Flexible Working Arrangements effective June 06 2023.
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Inclusions to reflect more flexibility for employers to offer fixed-term contractual alternatives within current templates
- AU Full-time Employment Agreement (hourly)
- AU Part-time Employment Agreement (hourly)
- AU Part-time Employment Agreement (salaried)
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AU Full-time Employment Agreement (salaried)
- AU Full-time Employment Agreement (hourly)
Q3 2023 (July - September)
- Title Changes
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AU Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy
- Formerly AU Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Anti-Discrimination and Harassment Policy
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AU Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy
- Replaced and updated Fair Work Information Statement document
- Fair Work Information Statement effective July 2023
- Inclusions to reflect changes to Parental Leave details around extensions, requests and unpaid Parental Leave
- AU Leave Policy
- Family and domestic violence leave: Small businesses (ER will less than 15 EEs on 1 Feb) need to implement this
- AU Leave Policy
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Professional Employees Award: variations around overtime and penalty rates will be introduced
- AU Employment Agreements reflect this in reference to the FWA 2009 clause
Q4 2023 (October - December)
- Changes to fixed term agreements
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AU Employment Agreements provide this flexibility at present
- A new section 333E in the Fair Work Act, the national workplace relations legislation, prohibits the use of fixed term contracts exceeding two years, except in a range of exceptional circumstances listed in section 333F.
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The new provisions include a range of ‘anti-avoidance’ provisions, to ensure that employers cannot escape the prohibitions by using a series of shorter fixed term contracts, and delaying the reengagement of employees to create a hiatus between contracts.
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AU Employment Agreements provide this flexibility at present
Available documents
Important
An employment contract is an agreement between an employer and employee that sets out terms and conditions of employment.
- AU Employment Contract - Casual Employees
- AU Employment Contract - Full Time Hourly Employees
- AU Employment Contract - Full Time Salaried Employees
- AU Employment Contract - Part Time Hourly Employees
- AU Employment Contract - Part Time Salaried Employees
Important
These are the major documents used to communicate, and record information about an employment relationship between an employee and an employer from the start of an individual's employment, to the end.
- AU Abandonment of Employment - Final Warning
- AU At Risk of Redundancy Letter
- AU Completion of Probation Letter
- AU Confirmation of Conversion to Full-Time or Part-Time Employment
- AU Confirmation of Resignation
- AU Confirmation of Resignation with Ongoing Contractual Obligations
- AU Confirmation of Pay Increase
- AU Confirmation of Promotion
- AU Confirmation of Termination of Employment During Probationary Period
- AU Letter for Superannuation Changes on 1 July 2022
- AU Notice of decision not to offer Casual conversion - Non small business employer
- AU Notice of refusal of request for Casual conversion
- AU Notice of Termination Due to Redundancy Letter
- AU Offer of conversion to full-time or part-time employment
- AU Overpayment of Wages Letter to Employee
- AU Overpayment of Wages Letter to Employee (multiple overpayments)
- AU Request for National Police Check Letter
- AU Stand Down of Employment due to Coronavirus Letter
- AU Statement of Service
- AU Termination Due to Abandonment
- AU WFH Confirmation for Tax Letter
Important
Having a knowledge base allows for companies of all sizes to understand an increase an employees understanding behind your policies and procedures.
- AU Abandonment of Employment
- AU Annual Leave (NES)
- AU Community Services Leave including Jury Service (NES)
- AU Compassionate Leave (NES)
- AU Deductions from Wages
- AU Discrimination - Criminal Record
- AU General Protections and Adverse Action
- AU Goal Setting
- AU Long Service Leave
- AU Managing Unsatisfactory Performance and Workplace Behaviour
- AU Independent Contractor VS Employee
- AU Parental Leave (NES)
- AU Personal Leave (NES)
- AU Record Keeping Requirement
- AU Right of Entry
- AU Superannuation for Employers
- AU Temporary Shut Down
- AU Transfer of Business
Important
These are the more unique and specialised documents used to communicate, and record information about an employment relationship.
- AU Agreement for Reduced Hours or Pay or Unpaid Leave Letter
- AU Annualised Wage Arrangement
- AU Change to Terms Letter
- AU Extension of Fixed Term Contract
- AU Extension of Probationary Period
- AU Independent Contractor Agreemen
- AU Temporary Assignment
- AU Termination Letter
- AU Welcome Back to the Office After Covid
- AU Written Warning & Performance Improvement Notification Letter
- AU Written Warning Letter - Misconduct
Important
These contain any rules or guidelines in a professional setting that define appropriate conduct or best practise. Work policies commonly address topics such as health and safety, peer or customer interactions, and hiring. The policies that an employer puts in place tend to align with their organisational goals and the kind of workplace culture they wish to establish. They establish an organisation's norms and the expectations of the senior management.
- AU Alcohol & Drugs Policy
- AU Bullying Policy
- AU Code of Conduct
- AU COVID-19 Face Covering Policy
- AU COVID-19 Policy
- AU COVID-19 Workplace Hygiene Policy
- AU Discipline & Termination Policy
- AU Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy
- AU Fair Work Information Statement
- AU Flexible Working Policy
- AU Grievance Handling Policy
- AU Leave Policy
- AU Privacy Policy
- AU Public Transport Policy
- AU Remote Working & Working From Home Policy
- AU Social Media Policy
- AU Staff Social Functions Policy
- AU Telephone, Mobile & Internet Policy
- AU Theft and Cash Handling Policy
- AU Workplace Health and Safety Policy
- AU Whistleblower Policy
- AU Workplace Surveillance Policy
Further information
You can use Employment Hero templates when creating policies for your company in the Policy Management screen. When these templates get updated, the changes made to them do not automatically apply to the policies based on them.
To bridge this gap, we have introduced the Update from Template feature. It lets you update existing policies (that you created from our templates) into the most recent version of the templates they were based on.
Legal Disclaimer
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