Our Services
Primary Employers Tasmania offers a wide range of services and specialised advice to take the stress out of employing people on Tasmanian farms, as well as ensuring your workplace is safe and compliant.
Workplace Relations
Australia has one of the most complex and daunting industrial relations systems in the world. Any person employing an individual or engaging a contractor in their business must comply with a myriad of fair work rules and regulations.
Primary Employers Tasmania takes the stress out of this compliance by providing tailored and targeted advice to ensure every member can provide a fair and compliant workplace, and is best educated to prevent industrial disputes and investigations.
Our expert team can provide reassuring assistance and advice across wage rates, trainee rates, award matters, Fair Work Ombudsman investigations, termination / dismissal, Fair Work Commission, workers’ compensation, long service leave, anti-discrimination, bullying, piecework arrangements, employment agreements, shearing industry training and related matters, and general training and education.
We will also provide regular updates to ensure you know about any changes to employee entitlements, such as superannuation, public holidays and casual rates, as well as government assistance packages and grant opportunities.
Work Health and Safety
We work with each member to ensure you and your business are compliant with all work health and safety legislation by identifying any areas of concern and providing workable and practical solutions to rectify any issues.
Our comprehensive expertise in Workplace Health and Safety matters will help you to implement safe work policies, procedures and practices to underpin best practice health and well-being for you, your family and your employees.
Human Resource Management
Primary Employers Tasmania works closely with its members to optimise the relationship between employer and employee.
We provide practical advice and assistance, enabling our members to enhance their people management and communication skills and develop a positive values-based workplace culture in a bid to create a more productive place of work.
Our focus is to maximise employee performance in line with their employer’s key vision and objectives.
We can assist with information with regards to hiring, motivating and maintaining employees in your business.
Training
Primary Employers Tasmania is committed to working with its member to ensure their employees are appropriately trained to perform their agreed duties in a safe, productive and compliant manner.
Professional development and training opportunities are also important to many people when looking for a job, and for existing employees to develop their own skills and better understand the expectations of the workplace and future career opportunities.
Primary Employers Tasmania provides training in all aspects of human resources and workplace relations, including introduction of new policies, enterprise bargaining committee training, termination of employment, workplace health and safety, conducting performance appraisals, and recruitment and interviewing.
Primary Employers Tasmania is also an accredited provider of shearer and wool handler training for new and experienced employees, with a dedicated team member specialising in delivering this training for Tasmania’s wool industry.
Contact Primary Employers Tasmania 0407 200 909 for more information about shearer and wool handler training, or any other training matters and opportunities.
Advocacy
Your membership fees are put to work so that we can represent and lobby all levels of government and all relevant government agencies to ensure our workplace relations and health and safety legislation is as practical and workable for Tasmanian farmers as possible.
Primary Employers Tasmania is also a member of the National Farmers Federation, ensuring our voice is heard loudly and clearly on the national stage.
We encourage all members to submit their views to Primary Employers Tasmania so we can incorporate their thoughts into our policy submissions and direct ministerial briefings.
We take your views directly to those who make decisions and write policy so our door is always open for our members to provide insights on how we can affect change at all levels of government.
Job Search
Primary Employers Tasmania also assists the State’s farmers to find employees for any vacant positions.
Members are entitled to having their vacant jobs advertised free of charge on the Primary Employers Tasmania website, which can also be promoted through our social media channels.
We also list details of potential employees who have contacted us in the hope of working in Tasmania’s agricultural industries.
Primary Employers Tasmania can also recommend professional recruitment agencies – whether you require an Executive Chairman for your Board or a farm apprentice or a farm manager to assist with your business.
Any member or person wishing to seek employment on a Tasmanian farm should send their detail to pet@primaryemployers.com.au.
Mediation
Primary Employers Tasmania’s focus is to train, educate and advise its members to avoid workplace disputes whenever possible.
However, if the conflict does result in an informal or formal dispute, Primary Employers Tasmania can assist you with options to best resolve the issue.
This can range from supporting you to appoint an independent mediator to seeking legal representation.
We want to ensure that our members have a full understanding of the process ahead of them and are supported by the most appropriate expert to achieve the best possible outcome.
Communication
Our promise to you is that if there is any change in workplace industrial relations or workplace health and safety legislation that affects Tasmanian farmers – we will let you know.
Primary Employers Tasmania’s Communications Strategy is designed to optimise new communications platforms to ensure we provide accurate, timely, clear and concise information to our members and key stakeholders.
Updated wage schedules will be shared with members following each annual Minimum Wage Decision.
Specialised training days and events are regularly organised for members to attend to gain a hands-on appreciation of the latest trends and information.
Our regular newsletter has been relaunched so that we can provide case studies, legislative updates, best practice examples and other tips to assist with your workplace management.
And we are always here to listen so please call, email or visit us to share your stories and seek our advice…
“We joined Primary Employers Tasmania to ensure our employment contracts are compliant, our policies and procedures are updated, and that our work health and safety management is best practice. Like all farmers, we can’t afford any exposure in these critical areas of running our agricultural businesses”
— Janelle and Corey Spencer, Bracknell