Category: Employment law
- Employment law, Featured
With a suite of regulatory changes coming into effect this year, and more on the horizon, here is how to prepare for key changes, from gender equality requirements to increased parental leave.
- Employment law, Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The upcoming industrial relations landscape will focus on consolidation. However, there are still some reforms HR should prepare for.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Adverse action claims can be highly nuanced, complex and contextual. An employment lawyer shares some foundational information that all HR practitioners need to know.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
The government plans to introduce reforms to make it easier for casual workers to convert to permanent employment if they choose. What will these changes mean for HR?
- Employment law, Featured, How to's, Legal, Section
Before terminating a casual employee, make sure you’ve done your due diligence to avoid breaching your legal obligations.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
Is your company’s social media policy and training process robust enough? It could be your saving grace in an unfair dismissal case.
- Employment law, Featured, Parental leave, Section, Strategic HR
From a “historic” wage increase for aged care workers to changes to how often you’ll need to pay superannuation contributions. Here’s what HR needs to know about the 2023 budget.
- Employment law, Enterprise bargaining, Featured, Section, Secure Jobs Bill
Ahead of upcoming changes to the Enterprise Bargaining Framework, now is the time for HR to think about maximising opportunities and minimising risks that could arise from the new legislation.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
Do non-compete clauses prevent healthy competition and compress wages? The Australian government has started conversations about potentially banning them from employment contracts.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Risk, Section
Safe Work Australia has announced its plans to create safer workplaces by reducing fatalities by 30 per cent over the next decade. But does this strategy go far enough?
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- Featured, How to's, Trusted partnership
A HR practitioner offers a range of thought-provoking questions to help you plan your next career move.
- Featured, How to's, Section, Talent management
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.
- Featured, How to's, Section, Trusted partnership
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
- Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
A case currently before the Federal Circuit Court highlights the dangers of cutthroat, “win at all costs” work cultures. But where do courts draw the line between a competitive culture and a psychosocially unsafe work environment?
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
Ahead of a report into the latest Closing Loopholes legislation, we ask an expert lawyer to explain the casual conversion rules in their current form.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
NSW has significantly raised the legal stakes for workplace health and safety compliance, including the management of psychosocial risks. Here’s what the changes mean in practice, and their implications for employers across Australia.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
The new financial year will bring changes to pay, superannuation, parental leave, psychosocial risk management and more. Here’s what these changes will mean in practice for HR.
