Category: Legal
- Featured, Legal, Section
Need to change an employee’s job description to cover for departing staff? Make sure you have your legal bases covered.
- 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?
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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.
