Category: Industrial relations
- 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.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The first public test of the right to disconnect legislation is drawing close attention from business leaders – particularly with small businesses set to come under the new rules from August 2025.
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
A new report has shed light on the impact of recent legislative changes on Australian workplaces, including the right to disconnect. How are the changes being received, and where are employers seeing the biggest gains?
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
New wage theft laws criminalising intentional underpayments have now come into effect. A legal expert explains what HR needs to know to maintain compliance with the new legislation.
- Ethical dilemma, Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Industrial relations, Section
Three AHRI members explain how they would respond to a complicated situation arising from the new Right to Disconnect legislation.
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The Right to Disconnect allows employees to refuse contact not only from their employer, but also from external third parties. How can HR balance the new legislation with meeting customer and client needs?
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The Right to Disconnect has now officially come into effect. To help ensure organisations maintain compliance with the new legislation, the government has released guidance for employers.
- Closing Loopholes Bill, Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The Federal Court has imposed over $4 million in penalties against an employer for “deceitful and unscrupulous” wage theft. With the criminalisation of wage theft looming, now is the time to put legal safeguards in place to reduce underpayment risks.
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
With the Right to Disconnect legislation set to be implemented in just a few months’ time, an expert on the matter clears up some common misconceptions about what the changes mean for businesses.
- Featured, Industrial relations, Section, Skills
What will the government’s new National Skills Passport initiative look like in practice, and how can employers use it to their advantage?
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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.
