So you have been provided with disciplinary allegations and you need to give a response.  A response can be given verbally in a meeting, in writing or by a combination.  It is only in the simplest and least serious of situations that a purely verbal response should be...

“A stitch in time saves nine”.  “There’s never time to do it right but there’s always time to do it over”.  Wise sayings.  We have recently had a number of enquiries which go along the lines of “I’ve just had my conference in the Fair Work Commission and it didn’t...