Category: Flexible work
- Featured, Flexible work, Section, Talent management
New research reveals fewer Australian employers are tightening in-office requirements, with most opting to maintain existing hybrid models.
- Featured, Flexible work, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Striking the right balance between business needs, legal obligations and employee welfare is key when handling a flexible work request. Use these tips to ensure your approach is fair and compliant.
- Culture Leadership, Featured, Flexible work, Legal, Section, Strategic HR
If you’re thinking of allowing employees to substitute public holidays that don’t align with their beliefs or to make room to celebrate a more culturally significant event later in the year, keep these legal tips in mind.
- Featured, Flexible work, Legal, Section
In a recent landmark case, the FWC ruled in favour of an employer’s right to refuse a remote work request. What are the implications of this ruling for the future of hybrid and remote work?
- Featured, Flexible work, Section
Calls are increasing for the government to extend Australia’s annual leave entitlement to six weeks. What advantages could this policy offer, and is it a practical possibility?
- Featured, Flexible work, Legal, Section
In a recent decision, the Fair Work Commission ruled that an employee working remotely without their manager’s permission constituted a valid reason for dismissal.
- Featured, Flexible work, Future of Work, Section
The four-day work week, promising boosted work-life balance, job satisfaction and productivity, has never felt more in reach. But could this model really make its way into the mainstream?
- Featured, Flexible work, Future of Work, Section, Strategic HR
As organisations redesign work for the future, we need to start advancing our thinking about what it means to operate a business flexibly and how to create more sustainable work models.
- Featured, Flexible work, Hybrid work, Section
Almost half of job seekers have declined an offer due to unsatisfactory flexible work options, new research suggests. Make sure your company doesn’t lose out on talent by developing a robust flexible work policy.
- 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.
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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.
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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.
