Category: Section
- Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
Both the National Employment Standards and the Closing Loopholes laws are currently under scrutiny, prompting renewed debate about the future of casual employment. Here’s what HR needs to know.
- Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Talent management
Australia’s graduate job market stabilised in early 2026 – with postings well above pre-pandemic levels – after softening over the previous two years. So far, evidence that artificial intelligence is influencing graduate hiring trends is tentative rather than conclusive.
- Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Organisational enablement
Atlassian’s CPO is taking on a dual function, bringing AI enablement into her portfolio and signalling the rise of the HR technologist.
- Featured, Trusted partnership
At this year’s AFR Workforce Summit, one question resonated above all others for Chief People Officers, journalists and business leaders: how should I be preparing my children for a future workforce that will look so vastly different from the one I know today?
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
A recent ruling highlights the legal distinction between poor performance and time theft. An employment lawyer unpacks the decision and how to deal with suspected dishonesty around hours worked.
- Featured, Talent management, Workforce Effectiveness
There’s a growing demand for HR leaders across Australia in response to evolving market shifts, finds new data. Here are four findings that reveal HR’s career and salary prospects for 2026.
- Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
Ensuring employees complete a tick-box training module might not protect employers from vicarious liability, as this employer discovered.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
A recent ruling offers a timely reminder that external advisors can be held individually liable, as well as employers. An employment lawyer unpacks the ruling and shares how individuals can reduce their risk of liability.
- Business Strategy, Featured
With consumer confidence suffering its sharpest decline since the pandemic and job loss anxiety hitting a five-year high, leadership is no longer just about management – it’s about stability.
- Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Workforce Effectiveness
While AI has the power to supercharge employees’ capabilities in previously unimaginable ways, it can also weaken critical skills that organisations have spent decades honing and coaching for – skills that will be considered mission-critical in the near future.
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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, Strategic HR, Workforce Effectiveness
AI is helping workers research, build and articulate workplace complaints with legal precision – and employers are scrambling to keep up.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
Almost one million Australians now hold more than one job. But what if an employee’s second job interferes with their work or their employer’s interests? Here are two FWC cases that clarify how far employers can go to restrict secondary employment.
- Featured, Legal, Trusted partnership
With the minimum wage and award increases fast approaching, here’s how HR can help their organisations to assess their options.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
Victoria has become the first Australian state to legislate the right to work from home. Here’s how the new legislation will work, and what it could mean for Australia’s broader industrial relations landscape.
