Category: Featured
- Featured, HR policies and procedures, Legal, Section
A recent FWC case has shed light on the dangers of inadequate policies and procedures relating to drug and alcohol use. How can HR craft a drug and alcohol policy that stands up to scrutiny?
- Case study, Featured, Section, Senior HR profile, Strategic HR
Brenda Hawke spent her early career in major organisations, pushing boundaries and executing change, but it was a mammoth shift in her personal life that enabled her to see where she could make the biggest difference.
- Featured, Section, Workforce planning
Proposed reforms to Australia’s migration system promise to target skills gaps and simplify the visa and sponsorship process. Here are the key changes HR should be aware of and how to prepare for them.
- Featured, Section, Strategic HR
Neuroscience tells us that building trust requires leaders to invest in employees, redefine failure and champion shared accountability.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, How to's, mental health, Section
As year-end deadlines and celebrations flood the schedule, organisations may find their workforce facing exhaustion and, in severe cases, burnout. Use these tips to guide employees towards reclaiming their wellbeing amid the holiday hustle.
- Featured, Productivity, Section
How many hours per day does the average employee spend in meetings that could be an email? How about responding to chat messages? This infographic provides a breakdown of how employees typically spend their time at work.
- Featured, How to's, Legal, Section
Two lawyers outline standards and practical steps for employers to comply with the new positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act.
- 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?
- Closing Loopholes Bill, Featured, Legal, Section, Strategic HR
Employers who intentionally underpay staff (including superannuation) could soon face criminal sanctions. Here’s what else HR needs to know about the Closing Loopholes Bill.
- Featured, How to's, Legal, Section
It’s an unfortunate reality that workplace investigations often need to occur following an end-of-year party. Here are some workplace investigation tips to keep in mind.
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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.
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- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
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.
- 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.
