Category: Legal
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section
A new decision sheds light on how HR should approach dismissing employees during the probationary period. Including the risk of adverse action if a reason is not given and documented.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workplace Health and Safety
What should you do if an injured employee is unable to return to their pre-injury position?
- Featured, HR policies and procedures, Legal, Section
As of 1 December 2018, the rules around flexible work requests have changed. Legal experts break down what HR needs to know about this new law.
- Featured, Legal, Section
When does an employer have the right to seek more information from a sick employee despite receiving a medical certificate?
- Featured, Legal, Section
As an employer, what do you need to know about redeployment when an employee has been made redundant? Legal experts offer their advice.
- Featured, Legal, Section
Legal experts shed light on how ‘absolute’ is an employer’s ‘absolute discretion’ when it comes to bonuses and incentive payments.
- Employment law, Featured, How to's, Legal, Section, Talent management, Workplace performance
The steps you need to follow to get the dismissal of underperforming employees right. Most import, make sure you document everything.
- Employment law, HR policies and procedures, Leadership, Legal, Performance, Section
Nepotism can have far-reaching impacts, including on a company’s bottom line. How should HR respond to nepotism? For those of you who are curious about idioms, you might be surprised when you look up the origin of the phrase “Bob’s your uncle”. Most of us understand the phrase to mean “everything will be ok” –…
- HR policies and procedures, Legal, Section
In Australia, at least, “You’re fired” really does only work as a catchphrase.
- Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
Stress: We all have to live with it to some extent. But what happens when an employee asks to take stress leave? What are your obligations?
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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?