Category: Legal
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
What if a flexible work request is based on preference rather than a genuine need? A recent FWC case offers important lessons for employers on balancing legal obligations, business needs and employee expectations.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A recent incident involving a “kiss cam” at a Coldplay concert earlier this month has drawn attention to the complications of workplace relationships. A legal expert answers common questions about managing relationships between employees.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Complex performance management issues often require HR to coach managers in how to help employees cope with uncomfortable challenges. Understanding the role of a reasonable management plan is key to this.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
Defendants in bullying and harassment cases sometimes claim their behaviour was simply reflective of their workplace culture. But how much weight does this defence carry in the eyes of the law?
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A legal expert outlines what these new privacy invasion laws mean for business and how HR can help leaders remain compliant.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The first public test of the right to disconnect legislation is drawing close attention from business leaders – particularly with small businesses set to come under the new rules from August 2025.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Restructuring a role without ending employment raises complex legal questions for HR. Here are four factors to keep in mind when dealing with a partial redundancy.
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
A new report has shed light on the impact of recent legislative changes on Australian workplaces, including the right to disconnect. How are the changes being received, and where are employers seeing the biggest gains?
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
Two recent FWC cases highlight the delicate balance HR must strike when performance management and dismissal decisions involve employees with mental health concerns.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement, Section
WGEA has released detailed guidance on its new requirement for large employers to set specific gender equality targets. Use this guide to understand the types of targets available and how to choose the right goals for your organisation.
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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.
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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.
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- 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?