Category: Legal
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
A major Fair Work Commission decision is set to increase award wages and update classifications across five female-dominated industries. How can HR prepare for award updates and stay ahead of compliance risks?
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
Three legal experts share how HR can navigate employee rights and legal compliance when it comes to return-to-work mandates.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Strategic HR, Workforce Effectiveness
Preventing underpayments requires more than a functional payroll system – it’s about joining the dots between people, payroll and processes.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Probation periods are often misunderstood in the employee onboarding process. A legal expert clarifies how HR can get it right.
- Culture Leadership, Featured, Legal, Section
New reforms will make gender equality targets mandatory for some employers. How can organisations lay the groundwork to meet the new requirements?
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
An employee was recently awarded nearly $30k after he was dismissed for allegedly falsifying an illness. What went wrong for the employer in this case, and how should HR address suspected misuse of sick leave?
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
How do you balance competing principles during a workplace investigation? And how can you maintain psychosocial safety? An expert walks HR practitioners through the end-to-end process of an effective workplace investigation.
- Featured, Flexible work, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Striking the right balance between business needs, legal obligations and employee welfare is key when handling a flexible work request. Use these tips to ensure your approach is fair and compliant.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A recent FWC case highlights the fine line between dismissing a casual employee and the employment relationship coming to a natural end.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The latest rounds of reform to Australia’s migration system present both challenges and opportunities for employers. Here’s what HR needs to know.
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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?