Category: Featured
- Featured, Legal, remuneration, Section
New research has revealed that unpaid overtime represents 17 per cent of total working hours among Australian employees. With stricter wage theft laws on the horizon, how can employers ensure their overtime policies are compliant?
- Featured, How to's, Performance, Section
It’s the prerogative of every employer to set high standards for their workforce. However, a recent case demonstrated that employers must be able to justify their performance targets. How can you ensure KPIs stand up to scrutiny?
- Featured, How to's, HR policies and procedures, Section
The year is almost drawing to a close, but before employers shut up shop for the year, there are a few things to consider ticking off your to-do list.
- Featured, Section, Strategic HR
In order to build high-performance teams and ensure productivity gains, organisations need to prioritise stability, trust and ‘letting go’. Here’s how HR can help.
- Featured, How to's, Section, Uncategorized
Done well, networking can be more than just an opportunity to meet new people – it can open you and your organisation to a world of opportunity.
- 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, Future of Work, Section, Strategic HR
With 2024 just around the corner, business leaders are gearing up for yet another year of profound change. Here are five key workforce trends that could shape the new year, and advice for HR on how to prepare. As the countdown to the new year commences, business and HR leaders are bracing themselves for new…
- Culture, Employee engagement, Featured, Section
By embedding its core values into HR practices, performance management and employee interactions, the HR team at RSL Queensland has created an AHRI-Award nominated employee experience.
- Featured, Legal, Performance, Section
The FWC recently found an employee’s termination for failure to meet KPIs unfair due to ‘arbitrary’ and ‘unreasonable’ sales targets. What went wrong for the employer in this case, and how can HR avoid similar claims arising?
- Featured, HR policies and procedures, Legal, Section
Rules around employers’ legal requirements regarding the collection and storage of employee information could be set to change in the near future, with proposed reform ahead for the employee record exemption.
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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, 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.
