Category: Legal
- Featured, Legal, Section
Remote work has become so common that you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s an employee’s right to work from home. This ruling shows why that’s not the case.
- COVID-19, Employee wellbeing, Featured, Legal, Section
With thousands of Australians contracting COVID-19 over the break, or isolating for days on end awaiting test results, many holiday plans were thwarted. How can employers help?
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
Asking for a medical certificate to explain an absence is a common practice, but what happens if you need more information? How far can an employee pry into an employee’s medical history?
- COVID-19, Featured, Legal, Section
An employer has been ordered to pay over $830,000 in death benefits and funeral costs due to COVID-19 death at work, and could potentially be on the hook for millions more.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
After a lawyer engaged in “volatile conduct” and refused to leave the premises, police needed to escort him out. On top of that, the lawyer refused to accept a termination.
- Featured, Legal, Recruitment, Section
Keep your business out of hot water by avoiding these illegal interview questions. A legal expert shares her tips.
- Featured, Legal, Section
Time off in lieu can offer an alternative to paid overtime in some scenarios. But what obligations do you have to your employees?
- Featured, Legal, Section
Probationary periods are common – and commonly misunderstood. This can put employers at risk of unfair dismissal claims.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section, Workplace Health and Safety
With several COVID-19 vaccines on the horizon, employers might want to make them mandatory for all employees. However, legally, are they allowed to?
- Featured, Legal, Section, Strategic HR
Want to bring former employees back into the fold but unsure about your legal obligations? Read this.
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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?