Category: Employment law
- Employment law, Featured, Flexible work, Legal, Section, Secure Jobs Bill
The FWC has deemed a Victorian employer’s refusal to grant an employee flexible work request to be unfair. With the incoming Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill changes, we could see more cases like this emerging.
- Employment law, Enterprise bargaining, Featured, Industrial relations, Section, Secure Jobs Bill
Here’s what HR needs to know about the impending industry-based bargaining changes.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section, Secure Jobs Bill
Casual employment can pose complications for businesses, particularly when it comes to deciding whether to offer a casual employee a permanent role. Are there any cases where permanent conversion is compulsory for employers?
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section, Secure Jobs Bill
In light of the recent industrial relations changes, here’s what HR needs to revise when creating new employment contracts.
- Employee wellbeing, Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
Micromanagement might not sound all that serious on face value, but this Fair Work and contract case – which has been labelled one of the biggest payouts for a general protections claim – shows it can have alarming consequences.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
While there’s little chance of going back to the pre-pandemic way of working, employers are able to direct their people to return to the office. So what happens if an employee refuses?
- Employee wellbeing, Employment law, Featured, Section
Placing an overworked, stressed and under-resourced employee on a performance improvement plan contributed to the employer owing him one million dollars in workers’ compensation.
- Employment law, Featured, Section
Is it legal to demote an employee who isn’t up to the job? A lawyer explains why it’s “one of the riskier paths to take”.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
Asking for a medical certificate to explain an absence is a common practice, but what happens if you need more information? How far can an employee pry into an employee’s medical history?
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
After a lawyer engaged in “volatile conduct” and refused to leave the premises, police needed to escort him out. On top of that, the lawyer refused to accept a termination.
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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.
