Category: Featured
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
Do non-compete clauses prevent healthy competition and compress wages? The Australian government has started conversations about potentially banning them from employment contracts.
- Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Section, Strategic HR
When International Women’s Day rolls out each year, some groups are quick to label conversations about gender inequality as ‘wokeism’. This can lead both parties in the conversation to become defensive and prevent constructive discussion from taking place.
- Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Legal, Section
Even with the best of intentions, employers and HR leaders can skip over important compliance points when designing a diversity and inclusion policy. Two lawyers share some important factors for HR to keep in mind.
- Featured, Legal, Section
A recent report has uncovered millions of dollars’ worth of underpayments at public universities over the last three years. The research indicates that wage theft has become “an endemic part of universities’ business models”.
- Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Section
The arrival of International Women’s Day on 8 March celebrates women’s achievements around the world. It’s also an opportunity to reflect on what strides are needed to improve gender equality across all aspects of our lives.
- Culture, Featured, Section, Talent management
A new report from ELMO has revealed that over a third of Aussie employees will cut down on remote work in favour of the office in the coming year. What can HR do to create workplaces worth coming back to?
- Featured, How to's, Legal, Section
This FWC decision is a good reminder that ‘harshness’ will be considered in matters of dismissal, as will an employee’s track record.
- Featured, Legal, Section
An employee who was sacked over allegations of racism has received $13,500 in compensation by the FWC, after it found a lack of procedural fairness and that her employer had been “very unfair” in labelling her a racist.
- Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Section, Strategic HR
In order to advance your organisation’s gender equality efforts, you need to develop strong, impactful cultures of male allyship.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Risk, Section
Safe Work Australia has announced its plans to create safer workplaces by reducing fatalities by 30 per cent over the next decade. But does this strategy go far enough?
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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
NSW has significantly raised the legal stakes for workplace health and safety compliance, including the management of psychosocial risks. Here’s what the changes mean in practice, and their implications for employers across Australia.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
The new financial year will bring changes to pay, superannuation, parental leave, psychosocial risk management and more. Here’s what these changes will mean in practice for HR.
- 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.
