Our best practice guides aim to help small businesses and employees with a range of workplace issues. By adopting best practice initiatives, employers and employees can achieve happier, fairer and more productive workplaces.

Each guide has a checklist to help achieve best practice.

Our best practice guides cover the following topics:

• Flexible working arrangements
• Consultation and cooperation in the workplace
• Use of individual flexibility arrangements
• Employing young workers
• Gender pay equity
• Small business and the Fair Work Act
• Workplace privacy
• Managing underperformance
• Effective dispute resolution
• Parental leave.

Tools and resources

• Online learning centre