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Meet the company that’s shaking up traditional job descriptions to make them more fluid and flexible.
New research has revealed that CEOs are surprisingly optimistic about their growth prospects despite the threat of a potential recession.
Casual employment can pose complications for businesses, particularly when it comes to deciding whether to offer a casual employee a permanent role. Are there any cases where permanent conversion is compulsory for employers?
Keep these legal considerations in mind when allowing staff to swap out public holidays that don’t align with their beliefs.
The Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill has provided employees with more avenues to fight back against employers who deny requests for flexible working arrangements. Here’s what HR needs to know.
It can take months to pick up on a colleague’s work preferences and communication style. To remove this learning curve and help employees work together more effectively, you can encourage your employees to create a personal operating manual.
Four-day work week has been dominating headlines lately. However, is it feasible or should we instead focus on re-inventing the 5-day week?
As of December last year, employees who feel they’ve been discriminated against for their gender or intersex status, or for breastfeeding in the workplace, have more power for legal recourse.
By adopting transparent communication, using your people as part of the solution, and retaining investment in key strategic areas, HR can help businesses to weather the storm of a potential recession.
A salary increase is the number one career priority for employees in 2023, according to recent research. If you’re not in a position to give it to them, use these tips to say ‘no’ the right way.
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HOW TO
A HR practitioner offers a range of thought-provoking questions to help you plan your next career move.
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.
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
Ahead of a report into the latest Closing Loopholes legislation, we ask an expert lawyer to explain the casual conversion rules in their current form.
NSW has significantly raised the legal stakes for workplace health and safety compliance, including the management of psychosocial risks. Here’s what the changes mean in practice, and their implications for employers across Australia.
The new financial year will bring changes to pay, superannuation, parental leave, psychosocial risk management and more. Here’s what these changes will mean in practice for HR.
Workplace investigations are meant to resolve harm, but they’re increasingly becoming a potential source of it. With courts beginning to hold employers accountable for psychosocial risks created during the investigation process itself, two work health and safety lawyers outline key issues for HR to consider.
