You are the new office manager of an accounting firm. The firm operates in your state/ territory. It is owned by 10 partners. They employ 45 accountants. Another 65 employees are employed to undertake administrative tasks.
The accounting firm retains an external provider to provide HR services. The contract is due to expire.
You have been asked to undertake a review of HR services to determine whether it would be appropriate to:
Continue utilising the services of the external provider.
Employ a manager and four people with HR expertise to provide HR services internally.
Retrain six current administrative employees without HR expertise to provide HR services internally under the supervision of a partner of the accounting firm with an interest in HR.
Prepare a detailed checklist of legal requirements that HR providers would need to take into account when providing HR services. The checklist should provide details of the actual obligations and details of specific Commonwealth and state/ territory legislation. There is no need to complete the checklist. (1 page)