Category: Legal
- 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.
- 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.
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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?