Category: Legal
- Employment law, Featured, How to's, Legal, Section
Before terminating a casual employee, make sure you’ve done your due diligence to avoid breaching your legal obligations.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Technology
Technology is evolving at an ever-advancing pace, and HR needs to keep up. A legal expert outlines three emerging risks for employers to be across.
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Secure Jobs Bill
As of 6 June, a range of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill changes will be coming into effect, including the new multi-enterprise bargaining approach and changes to the handling of requests for flexible work and unpaid parental leave extensions.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
Is your company’s social media policy and training process robust enough? It could be your saving grace in an unfair dismissal case.
- Featured, Legal, Section
The FWC has rejected an HR manager’s constructive dismissal claim after it found that changes to her responsibilities and reporting line did not amount to forced resignation. What can HR learn from this case?
- Featured, Legal, Section
Can an employee on an extended probation period file for unfair dismissal? Can the window to file a claim be extended? An employment law expert unpacks three common sources of confusion about the unfair dismissal process.
- Featured, Legal, Section
A Victorian branch of bakery franchise Muffin Break has been slapped with 360 criminal charges for alleged breaches of child labour laws. Here’s what HR needs to know about this case.
- Featured, Legal, mental health, Section
With the new psychosocial hazards at work Code of Practice enshrined into law, now is the time for employers to reconsider their approach to psychosocial risk. Here’s how one organisation is approaching the issue with the mindset that prevention is better than cure.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Secure Jobs Bill
There are many changes to come out of the Fair Work Legislative Amendment, but here are three that HR needs to keep on their radar in coming months.
- Featured, Legal, remuneration, Section, Secure Jobs Bill
In a new consultation paper, the Albanese government has laid out the fine points of its proposal for a ‘Same Job, Same Pay’ policy. What would this measure mean for HR, and what challenges could it pose?
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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
An employee was recently awarded over $36,000 by the Fair Work Commission due to flaws in her employer’s workplace investigation process. What can HR learn from this decision?
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
Several recent cases heard by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) suggest verbal agreements in the workplace can carry more legal weight than some employers realise.
- Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
In a climate where diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are under scrutiny, how can HR help ensure their organisation’s gender equality targets stay on track?
- Featured, Legal, Workplace Health and Safety
Social media may be considered part of the workplace for politicians, finds NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT). Where can HR draw the line in terms of their legal obligations around an employee’s online activity?