The Magnetic Blog

Updates on regulations and insights on the employee experience, culture, development and more to help you build better workplaces.

Termination Payments

We wanted to share some important information regarding termination payments, as it's something that many employers are unintentionally getting wrong.

Historically, common practice has been for Emplo...

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Winner of the Australian Women's Small Business Champion Awards 2024

Pictured: Tanya Pavez (Managing Director and Chief People Officer) and Tamara Caygill (Operations Manager)

Our team were delighted to be announced as a winner of the Australian Women’s Small Business...

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Henderson Alliance partnership

Magnetic People is a proud member of the Henderson Alliance, a dynamic and progressive alliance of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) taking positive action to work collaboratively and build capabilit...

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Magnetic People Wins the 2024 Wendy Angela Award for Organisational Diversity

The Magnetic People Team had the privilege of attending the 2024 WA Defence Industry International Woman’s Day lunch and were proud to support the event as a silver sponsor.

It was an inspiring day c...

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Magnetic People Wins the 2022 Workplace Happiness Award!

Pictured L-R: Hon Stephen Dawson MLC, WA Government Minister, presenting the award to Sarah Noble, Tanya Pavez and Tamara Caygill of Magnetic People. 

On 12 November 2022, Magnetic People was honoure...

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Empowering Employee Wellness Through Non-Traditional Methods

With labour and skills shortages hitting many West Australian businesses, retaining top talent has never been more important. With projects moving from construction to operations, new projects receivi...

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Are you meeting your WHS obligations regarding psychosocial hazards in the workplace?

Earlier this year, the WA Work Health and Safety Commission published three new Codes of Practice regarding psychosocial hazards, violence and aggression and workplace behaviour. These Codes of Practi...

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Celebrating Greater Female Participation in the Drilling Industry

International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated around the world on the 8th of March. It is a day to recognise women for their achievements, to build support for women’s rights and to encourage the full...

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What will you do to stomp out bullying?

Like many others, our hearts shattered seeing the impact bullying has had on Brisbane boy, Quaden Bayles, after his mother (Yarraka Bayles) posted a heartbreaking video online last week, sending a sho...

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Voice. Treaty. Truth. Working Together for a Shared Future

2019 is being celebrated as the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages. The Indigenous voice of Australia is over 65,000 plus years old, spoken by the oldest continuing culture on t...

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New reforms to the Australian Whistle-blower Legislation

On 19 February 2019, new reforms to the Australian whistle-blower legislation were passed through parliament. These changes provide greater protections to those who bring corporate misbehaviour to lig...

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The ground-breaking report ‘Impact of FIFO work arrangements on the mental health and well-being of FIFO workers’

On Thursday 21 March 2019, Tanya Pavez, Managing Director of Magnetic People, was invited as a guest of Curtin University to learn more about the results and recommendations of the research report ‘Im...

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