The will examine your ability to apply a particular strand of employment regulation to a particular case study. You are required to report to the CEO about the companys obligations (given the facts of the case) and to recommend a course of action based on the companys obligations and broader business strategy. The report is designed to ensure that students retrieve and apply specific information to a particular workplace scenario. The rationale for this report is to put yourself in the place of a human resource manager. You are providing advice that will be used by the CEO of the company. Consequently the report need not be written in essay style. However, you must support your advice with reference to the materials used in reaching your conclusions (in a reference list). Answer the broad objectives that you have been set. You should provide a brief overview to begin (executive summary) but the report should be structured around the questions you have been asked QUESTION: You have just been hired as the new Human Resources Manager for Love Supreme Pty Ltd, a famous chain of pizza restaurants. Before you started work with Love Supreme, basic HR activities were handled by the companys owner, CEO and head chef, Jane Coltrane. Love Supreme employs 70 people as full-time permanent qualified chefs (who design the latest pizza recipes), kitchenhands (who do the washing up and other menial tasks in the kitchen), waiters and marketing and administrative workers. It also has 10 cooks who work in the companys three Sydney restaurants. The cooks (aged between 18 and 32) work from 12 midday to 8pm each day from Monday to Thursday and from 12 midday to 12 midnight each day on Fridays and Saturdays, the busiest days of the week. Their duties during the day involve preparing vegetables and meat for the pizza toppings, cooking the special pizza sauce and making bread dough for the pizza bases. In the evenings when the restaurants are open for dinner, the cooks assemble and cook the pizzas to order. All of this is done under the direction of the qualified chefs. In your initial review of the companys current arrangements, you find that the chefs, kitchenhands, marketing and administrative workers are engaged as employees on salaries or hourly rates. The cooks are engaged as independent contractors and are paid a flat rate of $1,000 per week. The business provides them with hats and aprons in Love Supremes famous shade of red (to match the special pizza sauce) and they are required to wear them at all times while working as the kitchen is visible from the tables in the restaurant. The cooks are important to Love Supremes success as the pizza quality and consistency is a big selling point. Ms Coltrane is keen to ensure that the company complies with its legal obligations to them. She asks you to prepare a report giving her the following information and recommendations regarding the cooks: 1) Is Love Supreme meeting its minimum obligations to the workers? If so, how? If not, how not? 2) Do you recommend any changes to the current arrangements under which the cooks are engaged to work? If so, what changes do you recommend?
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