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, Strategic HR, Workforce Effectiveness
AI is helping workers research, build and articulate workplace complaints with legal precision – and employers are scrambling to keep up.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
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.
- Featured, Legal, Trusted partnership
With the minimum wage and award increases fast approaching, here’s how HR can help their organisations to assess their options.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
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.
