Category: Legal
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
After AHRI members put forward their questions about managing redeployment, we asked legal experts to respond. Here’s what they said.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Unsure whether you can veto an employees’ choice of support person or what to do if they become disruptive? Experts outline the 101 of support people in difficult HR meetings.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
Considering these three factors will help HR practitioners ensure they are meeting Fair Work requirements when offering a redeployment opportunity to an employee.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Adverse action claims can be highly nuanced, complex and contextual. An employment lawyer shares some foundational information that all HR practitioners need to know.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
A recently passed law means employers now have higher liability risk for sexual harassment litigation costs. Here’s what HR needs to know.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
When having to deal with the unfortunate reality of workplace redundancies, it’s important to ensure that communication strategies are robust and that consultation obligations are met.
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The Right to Disconnect allows employees to refuse contact not only from their employer, but also from external third parties. How can HR balance the new legislation with meeting customer and client needs?
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia has granted a seven-figure compensation package to a former manager for his summary dismissal in 2020. What can employers learn from this ruling?
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The Right to Disconnect has now officially come into effect. To help ensure organisations maintain compliance with the new legislation, the government has released guidance for employers.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The rise of global hiring represents a huge opportunity for recruiters, but legal and jurisdictional complexities can introduce challenges for HR. Use these tips to optimise your strategy for recruiting and managing overseas workers.
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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?