When thinking about whether or not to sell your business, defining your objectives is important: clear priorities will guide your decisions and enable a smoother process.

The business environment may push you to rush into a sale to capitalise on seller-friendly terms.

Why investigate?

It’s crucial that employers act swiftly when an employee raises a concern or complaint about another employee and ensure that it is sufficiently investigated.

With the explosion of working from home, telehealth, and virtual offices through the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, physiotherapy practices were thrown into the deep end having to rapidly pivot to be able to provide IT-centric services to clients.

A common misunderstanding is the idea that an employee can be dismissed during their probation period without the need for the employer to give a substantive reason or follow a procedurally fair process.

What is a probation period?

Increasing numbers of new graduates are being employed in private practice, the largest employer of Australian physiotherapists (HWA 2019).

The issue of employing long-term casuals has become increasingly prominent in Australian workplaces in recent years, with award-specific obligations introduced for employers and employees in 2018 to address the associated complexities.

Despite this, ongoing difficulties are being felt in the Australian industrial relations landscape.

Running a business isn’t easy. Each day there is no guarantee how much revenue is going to come through the door, nor how much your expenses will be for that day or how to grow and maintain your client base.

University and further study are geared towards how to be a great physiotherapist and furthering technical skills, but this does not guarantee commercial success, or that of a successful business.

The importance of workplace policies and procedures in managing the new COVID-19 normal

As Australia attempts to live with COVID-19 rather than eradicate it, workplaces across the country are facing challenges unlike any they have faced before.

As many physiotherapists in private practice in rural and remote settings are sole operators, the need for mentoring and making professional connections is great.