Ensure day to day practices support carers in your workplace, and track how caring is impacting your organisation
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS
Review your organisation’s leave policies, such as dependant leave, to gauge their carer friendliness.
Suggestions
- Use carer feedback from surveys, workshops, and focus groups to innovate with these policies.
- Experiment with leave sharing – Carers NZ can advise about this.
Regularly check all policies and guidelines – are they up to date and fit for purpose?
Suggestions
- Being carer friendly can be as simple as scanning key policies with a carer lens.
- Changes that may be small from an HR perspective can make all the difference to a carer.
- Ensure policy guidelines for managers refer to carers where this is relevant.
Learn how caring is impacting retention.
Suggestions
- Is it a factor in resignations?
- In requests to work flexible days or hours?
- In requests to work less hours?
- In requests to change to a role that is more carer friendly?
