Category: Legal
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The rise of global hiring represents a huge opportunity for recruiters, but legal and jurisdictional complexities can introduce challenges for HR. Use these tips to optimise your strategy for recruiting and managing overseas workers.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Recent updates to the Migration Act have introduced new rules for engaging migrant workers, including improved flexibility for sponsored migrants who wish to leave their employer.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
With wage theft in the spotlight, carefully monitoring payroll compliance is more critical than ever. Here are five ways accidental underpayments can occur, and how to prevent errors like these slipping through the cracks.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
While employee surveys can be a useful tool to identify health and safety hazards, acting on survey findings necessitates a considered and well-rounded approach.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
The new Same Job, Same Pay legislation has been put to the test for the first time in a recent case heard by the FWC. How might this decision impact employers engaging labour hire workers?
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A recent Federal Court case has shed light on the complexities of dismissal decisions involving multiple stakeholders.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
From August this year, new legislation will allow casual employees who believe they are no longer casual to request permanent employment. Under the new laws, what will constitute reasonable grounds to refuse a conversion request?
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
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.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
With new rules for engaging casual workers due to come into effect in August, a legal expert outlines how HR can prepare.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
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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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
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A case currently before the Federal Circuit Court highlights the dangers of cutthroat, “win at all costs” work cultures. But where do courts draw the line between a competitive culture and a psychosocially unsafe work environment?
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
Ahead of a report into the latest Closing Loopholes legislation, we ask an expert lawyer to explain the casual conversion rules in their current form.
- 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.
