Setting the course during an unsettling time.
Keeping your workforce engaged throughout a transformation process is critical. Whilst difficult decisions may need to be made, staff and unions deserve to be treated with respect, empathy and dignity.
In delivering an organisational turnaround, careful stakeholder and union engagement mitigates the possibility of industrial unrest and ensures the business is set up for sustained success.
How we can help you
We provide commercially focused and strategic advisory services.
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We work with clients seeking assistance in navigating uncertainty and avoid delays to implementing organisational change by understanding the relationships, agreements and history. We then develop a strategy to support the organisation to deliver its objectives.
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We work with clients to understand the enterprise agreement landscape, identifying opportunities for simplification and, if appropriate, garner support for consolidation.
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We help organisations to understand their culture and how best to align their functions to support the overarching strategy of the organisation.
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The challenges in implementing a workforce reduction, redeployment or business separation process are complex and require an assessment of industrial agreements and accepted custom and practice. We help clients navigate and implement the processes.
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We work with clients to achieve considerable financial savings through a focus on labour management and controls. We undertake a full labour diagnostic, gaining understanding of the drivers of labour use and current recruitment controls.
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Through initial interviews with management and employees, we identify individuals who can play a leading role in stabilising the business and positively influencing employee attitudes toward change.
Our experience
We bring an evidence-based approach to our work with a strong emphasis on action and results.
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Arrium
Arrium is Australia's leading steel long products manufacturing and distribution business with circa 6,500 employees across 150 sites, 2.6 million tonne p.a. steel-making capacity and 10 million tonne iron ore export capacity. The business needed to be stabilised for the sale process.
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Masters Home Improvement
Masters Home Improvement (operated by retailer Woolworths Limited) had 63 sites in metropolitan and regional Australia, 6,500 staff and $1 billion in home and hardware stock. Following a failure to gain significant market share, KordaMentha was engaged to assist Woolworths and Masters complete Australia's largest‑ever solvent business exit.
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Central Adelaide Local Health Network
Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) is South Australia's largest healthcare network with circa 13,300 staff, five hospitals and a $1.8 billion annual budget. CALHN was an organisation in systemic distress, forecasting a $274 million FY19 budget overrun.
KordaMentha assumed responsibility for leading the negotiations with the Australian Services Union and reached agreement with them in very challenging circumstances.
