Category: Legal
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
In a recent case, the FWC found that an unsuitable redeployment offer did not justify reducing an employee’s redundancy pay. How can employers ensure their redeployment policies stand up to scrutiny?
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Non-compete clauses are in the spotlight following significant legal developments in Australia and abroad. Could it be the time of reckoning for these restraints?
- Featured, How to's, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Federal legislation passed in February creates a statutory definition of the employer-employee relationship – and it’s imperative that HR professionals review relevant contracts and working relationships sooner rather than later.
- Closing Loopholes Bill, Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The Federal Court has imposed over $4 million in penalties against an employer for “deceitful and unscrupulous” wage theft. With the criminalisation of wage theft looming, now is the time to put legal safeguards in place to reduce underpayment risks.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A recent FWC ruling provides important lessons for recruiters on essential legal considerations when engaging global talent.
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
With the Right to Disconnect legislation set to be implemented in just a few months’ time, an expert on the matter clears up some common misconceptions about what the changes mean for businesses.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
The Fair Work Commission has awarded compensation to an employee who was sacked for refusing to give up her decade-long work-from-home arrangement.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
A tribunal recently found an employee had been discriminated against for her “irrelevant” criminal record. What can HR learn from this case about managing candidates and employees with a criminal history?
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A range of employment law experts share some of the key legislation changes HR needs to be aware of in 2024 – from changes to wage theft laws and gender reporting requirements to new ways to engage with casual workers.
- Closing Loopholes Bill, Featured, Legal, Section
A right to disconnect and to work from home could soon become a reality in Australian businesses. Here’s how HR professionals can prepare.
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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, Workforce Effectiveness
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.
