Caroline Stride

Balancing Act

It will be familiar rhetoric for many working parents, post pandemic in Australia, particularly in 2022, where we are all ‘learning’ to live with COVID-19.  About a month ago, my partner bought home COVID (unbeknown to us) and sequentially our household was infected, one by one.  Like many professional working families in Australia today, our

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Why consulting will be embedded in the future of HR

In 2022, the employment landscape has changed, with casual employment and rolling fixed term contracts under greater scrutiny, more organisations than ever are looking to external consultants to support their broad business needs. Consulting is more than just labour hire, it is about providing fit for purpose support to enhance the organisations. Contrary to what

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New HR consultancy business to focus on driving commercial outcomes

National HR consultancy business, Azuhr, has opened with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. It is backed by Kingston Reid, Australia’s largest national specialist workplace law firm. Azuhr is headed by Peitra Moffat, an HR executive with more than 20 years’ experience working in multinational and multi-jurisdictional environments, who has worked across a broad spectrum

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Will the IR Omnibus drive us towards better workplaces?

Today, the Morrison Government has introduced the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 into the House of Representatives. Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations, Christian Porter, has been meeting with working groups comprising business and union groups since June 2020 to tackle known problems within the industrial relations system in

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