Category: Legal
- Featured, Legal, Section, Strategic HR
Four-day work week has been dominating headlines lately. However, is it feasible or should we instead focus on re-inventing the 5-day week?
- Discrimination, Featured, Legal, Section, Secure Jobs Bill
As of December last year, employees who feel they’ve been discriminated against for their gender or intersex status, or for breastfeeding in the workplace, have more power for legal recourse.
- Featured, Legal, Section
A business mandating a 50-hour work week for its employees was deemed unreasonable by the Federal Court. What counts as ‘reasonable’ overtime?
- Featured, Legal, Recruitment, Section, Strategic HR
Effective job interviews are vital to ensure the best person for the job is hired. But knowing what questions you can and can’t ask is something all HR professionals need to be aware of.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section, Secure Jobs Bill
In light of the recent industrial relations changes, here’s what HR needs to revise when creating new employment contracts.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Strategic HR
Requesting an employee’s medical history can be a tricky conversation. While some people might be reluctant to reveal their personal health information, there are some instances where disclosure is necessary for compliance and their safety.
- Employee wellbeing, Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
Micromanagement might not sound all that serious on face value, but this Fair Work and contract case – which has been labelled one of the biggest payouts for a general protections claim – shows it can have alarming consequences.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
While there’s little chance of going back to the pre-pandemic way of working, employers are able to direct their people to return to the office. So what happens if an employee refuses?
- Featured, Legal, Section
If a staff member discloses private information that requires you to breach an employee’s confidentiality, consider following these steps first.
- Employee wellbeing, Featured, Legal, Section
As the world reopens and people start planning holidays, employers might be faced with resourcing issues. In this instance, are they allowed to deny an annual leave request?
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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, 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.
