Onboarding Systems For Small Businesses

Justifying onboarding systems for small businesses on volume is difficult. Four hires a year does not obviously need software.

The case rests elsewhere. The obligations triggered by each hire are identical to those of a large employer. A written record of employment terms. The Fair Work Information Statement, and the casual version where it applies. Correct classification and pay from day one. A safety induction. Records that have to be kept for years.

A large employer has people whose job is to make that happen. A small one has somebody doing it between other work, from memory, four times a year, which is exactly the frequency at which people forget steps.

Low hiring volume is the argument for having a system, rather than the argument against one.

The Fair Work Ombudsman publishes the hiring obligations. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s onboarding management system and workplace compliance system.