Category: Legal
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
An employee was recently awarded $33,000 after the FWC found his mental health struggles meant his resignation was not voluntary. Here’s how employers can recognise when they shouldn’t take a resignation at face value.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
With data security under scrutiny and new regulations coming into effect, HR leaders need clarity on the legal obligations governing employee records.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
A recent FWC case has drawn attention to the legal complications that can arise when an employer discovers one of their workers is looking for another job.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
A recent Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision has reignited debate about whether employees have the right to work from home, but experts say its implications may be narrower than headlines suggest.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
Navigating requests for unpaid leave can introduce legal and practical challenges for employers. Keep these four legal considerations in mind when assessing and responding to a request.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
The Fair Work Commission recently ruled that reducing an employee’s work-from-home arrangements contributed to a redeployment offer being unacceptable. What does this mean for employers making redeployment decisions in the age of flexibility?
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
A recent FWC decision highlights the challenges employers face when sick leave interrupts investigation and dismissal processes. Here are some practical steps HR can take to reduce risk in situations like this.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
SafeWork NSW has intervened in a redundancy process on mental health grounds for the first time, reflecting the growing weight placed on psychological risk in work health and safety law.
- Employment law, Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The upcoming industrial relations landscape will focus on consolidation. However, there are still some reforms HR should prepare for.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
A recent Federal Court decision has delivered the highest general damages ever awarded in an Australian sexual harassment case. This case illustrates the importance of taking proactive measures to prevent harassment from taking place.
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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.
