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Taking a tick-box approach to workplace investigations can open your business up to risk. Two legal experts walk HR practitioners through best-practice tips when managing workplace complaints.
With new rules for engaging casual workers due to come into effect in August, a legal expert outlines how HR can prepare.
While reference checks are commonplace in most organisations’ recruitment processes, there are important limitations that are worth keeping in mind.
Kestrel Coal’s AHRI award-winning leadership development program prepares its leaders for the future by breaking down silos and innovating the training process.
As our ways of working evolve, organisations are encountering new and unfamiliar psychosocial risks, including digital overload and tech-facilitated harassment. How can HR help keep these hazards in check?
From employees gatekeeping critical information to people overemphasising their titles or territory, here are some subtle workplace behaviours that could spell trouble for your company culture.
From automated onboarding to personalised learning pathways, here’s how AI is helping HR practitioners create more supportive, dynamic and innovative workplaces.
To address potential retention issues, this HR leader rebooted her organisation’s career development system as part of her case study to achieve AHRI’s HR Certification.
Are Gen Z’s expectations of work really that different to the generations before them? Two experts share advice for attracting and retaining the next generation of talent.
An employer has been hit with a $17K fine for delayed payment of a terminated employee’s accrued annual leave, plus damages. This case sets an important precedent for employers.
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HOW TO

A HR practitioner offers a range of thought-provoking questions to help you plan your next career move.
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.
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

Workplace investigations are meant to resolve harm, but they’re increasingly becoming a potential source of it. With courts beginning to hold employers accountable for psychosocial risks created during the investigation process itself, two work health and safety lawyers outline key issues for HR to consider.
AI is helping workers research, build and articulate workplace complaints with legal precision – and employers are scrambling to keep up.
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.
With the minimum wage and award increases fast approaching, here’s how HR can help their organisations to assess their options.