Category: Legal
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Recent updates to the Migration Act have introduced new rules for engaging migrant workers, including improved flexibility for sponsored migrants who wish to leave their employer.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
With wage theft in the spotlight, carefully monitoring payroll compliance is more critical than ever. Here are five ways accidental underpayments can occur, and how to prevent errors like these slipping through the cracks.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
While employee surveys can be a useful tool to identify health and safety hazards, acting on survey findings necessitates a considered and well-rounded approach.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
The new Same Job, Same Pay legislation has been put to the test for the first time in a recent case heard by the FWC. How might this decision impact employers engaging labour hire workers?
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A recent Federal Court case has shed light on the complexities of dismissal decisions involving multiple stakeholders.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
From August this year, new legislation will allow casual employees who believe they are no longer casual to request permanent employment. Under the new laws, what will constitute reasonable grounds to refuse a conversion request?
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
Taking a tick-box approach to workplace investigations can open your business up to risk. Two legal experts walk HR practitioners through best-practice tips when managing workplace complaints.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
With new rules for engaging casual workers due to come into effect in August, a legal expert outlines how HR can prepare.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
An employer has been hit with a $17K fine for delayed payment of a terminated employee’s accrued annual leave, plus damages. This case sets an important precedent for employers.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management
In a recent case, the FWC found that an unsuitable redeployment offer did not justify reducing an employee’s redundancy pay. How can employers ensure their redeployment policies stand up to scrutiny?
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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?
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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?