Category: Culture and diversity

Will a return-to-office mandate damage your organisational culture? And what do you risk if you lean too heavily towards a compliance culture?
It can take months to pick up on a colleague’s work preferences and communication style. To remove this learning curve and help employees work together more effectively, you can encourage your employees to create a personal operating manual.
To mark NAIDOC week, HRM looks into lesser known facets of Indigenous employment and shares helpful resources that HR can add to their toolkit.
Racism in recruitment is against the law but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. And sometimes it’s not only deliberate, it’s overt.
Dignity in the workplace has become scarce for a variety of reasons. However, employees increasingly need to be treated with dignity to remain engaged.
Managing carer’s leave can be tricky, for both the employer and the employee. And sometimes simply meeting your obligations under the law isn’t enough.
After France’s burkini ban backfired, questions about wearing hijabs and other religious symbols are flying. What do you need to know as an employer?
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HOW TO

A HR practitioner offers a range of thought-provoking questions to help you plan your next career move.
Keep these tips in mind to ensure your organisation’s probation periods go beyond being a tick-box exercise and become a driver of strong culture and high performance.
From building your case in advance to avoiding the trap of false politeness, use these strategies to help you engage in constructive dissent at the executive level.

LEGAL

AI is helping workers research, build and articulate workplace complaints with legal precision – and employers are scrambling to keep up.
Almost one million Australians now hold more than one job. But what if an employee’s second job interferes with their work or their employer’s interests? Here are two FWC cases that clarify how far employers can go to restrict secondary employment.
With the minimum wage and award increases fast approaching, here’s how HR can help their organisations to assess their options.
Victoria has become the first Australian state to legislate the right to work from home. Here’s how the new legislation will work, and what it could mean for Australia’s broader industrial relations landscape.