Category: Legal
- Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
Employee departures can open the door to compliance, data security and reputational risks. Here’s how HR can strengthen employment contracts and tighten their offboarding processes to reduce exposure and protect the business.
- Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
With just a few months to go until new gender equality target-setting requirements come into effect, WGEA’s Executive Manager of Insights and Capability answers five common questions about the new requirements.
- Featured, Legal, Trusted partnership
A recent case whereby an employer docked its male employees’ pay by approximately $10,000 in a bid to even out an unintentional gender pay gap has highlighted the legal and ethical risks of blunt, reactive approaches to pay equity.
- Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
An employee who refused to work from his employer’s office has failed in his bid to overturn his dismissal. An expert says the ruling offers multiple lessons for HR.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
What happens when mental health issues intersect with allegations of misconduct? Here’s how HR can tackle the challenge of balancing empathy with procedural fairness.
- Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
Employees are increasingly hiding their use of AI and blurring the lines between personal and work AI use. This creates compliance, security and privacy risks that HR and legal teams must untangle.
- Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
Here are the key industrial relations reforms for HR to keep on their radars in 2026.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
Two recent FWC cases demonstrate how to properly assess job abandonment, and the risks for employers who act too quickly.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
Refusing annual leave is sometimes necessary, but it can also raise difficult questions about fairness and compliance. Here are five factors that could impact whether a refusal is considered reasonable.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A recent Federal Court ruling found a large Australian multinational employer must pay almost $100,000 for failing to consult its workforce over Christmas rostering decisions. A legal expert unpacks this case and shares other tips for ensuring end-of-year celebrations remain safe and compliant.
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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.
