Posts by Ross Clennett

Last week the recruitment industry engaged in a collective shudder when the Full Federal Court delivered their judgment in WorkPac Pty Ltd v Rossato [2020] FCAFC 84. Workpac has been ordered to pay Mr Rossato his full leave entitlements that are owed to him as a permanent employee. The court agreed with Rossato’s claim that…

Two weeks’ ago in my blog Leaders need to investigate these two critical areas of their business, I recommended a basic framework for how a recruitment agency owner or leader might usefully review their business given the impact of COVID-19. Very helpfully, local industry vendor, JobAdder, has provided an almost immediate insight into what industry…

On Tuesday, Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, rather than release the scheduled 2021 Federal Budget, instead gave his Ministerial Statement on the Economy to Parliament. This was, in effect, a mini budget as a holding pattern until the real budget is released in October. As expected, the forecast for the current (June) quarter was grim. “Household…

In any crisis leadership plays two critical roles. The first role is ensuring that resources (eg time, tools-of-trade, money and people) are immediately deployed and managed in a way to best respond to the crisis. In the COVID-19 world of the past eight weeks this has revolved around cost reduction, transitioning employees to working remotely…

Over the past four weeks I have spoken to a large range of recruitment agency owners and executives, ranging from those who have no employees to those who leading some of the biggest agencies in the country. The general mood, perhaps surprisingly, is quite upbeat. I put that down to six factors: leaders of recruitment…

The old saying “A week is a long time in politics” is sure to be replaced, at least temporarily, with “A week is a long time in the COVID-19 world”. The success of social distancing, a partial shutdown and stay-at-home orders has seen a flattening of the Australian COVID-19 ‘curve’ that’s well ahead of most…

It seems hard to believe that the initial Covid-19 restrictions, enacted by the Federal Government and the respective state governments, came into effect only three weeks ago. Normal life, as we knew it, already seems a distant memory. It’s hard to contemplate how we might be feeling this time in June if the current restrictions…

(L to R, Alfred, Clennett, Jim Clennett, Guy Clennett, circa early 1916) I’ve been in hospital over the past seven days. Last Wednesday I had surgery to remove a lesion in my large bowel. The lesion was discovered, via a colonoscopy, after I had collapsed in agony at home on the morning of Valentine’s Day.…

There’s been plenty written about the impact, economic-wise and health-wise, of COVID-19. I don’t intend to add to it, merely to point you to the useful resources I have discovered. I will update this page regularly: Recruiters, this is our time to step up! (Greg Savage’s excellent new blog post on how you might take…

Hays plc has long been a benchmark company for our industry both globally and locally. I pay close attention to what they are doing and delivering not just because my first job in recruitment was with Hays (in London) but because I continue to learn from the way the Hays effectively executes its global growth…