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A recent FWC ruling provides important lessons for recruiters on essential legal considerations when engaging global talent.
With the Right to Disconnect legislation set to be implemented in just a few months’ time, an expert on the matter clears up some common misconceptions about what the changes mean for businesses.
Managers have more influence on employees’ mental health than their doctors or therapists, according to a new study. How can HR ensure middle managers have the tools to foster psychosocial safety among their teams?
The way we meet at work is broken. It’s leading to massive productivity and energy drains and high rates of overtime as we’re forced to play catch up out of hours. Here’s how we can fix the problem.
The current learning landscape requires a more bespoke, strategic and tech-enabled approach, say AHRI’s Future of Work experts.
In order for your work relationships to serve you well, they need to be safe, repairable and vital. In AHRI’s latest podcast episode, coaching expert Michael Bungay Stanier outlines how to make this happen.
Earning trust quickly is a challenge when your colleague is on the screen.
We might think innovation is the key to our nation’s sluggish productivity levels, but it actually has more to do with poor management capabilities.
Natasha Cuthbert, AHRI’s 2023 HR Leader of the Year Award recipient, has devised innovative strategies to infuse a “blokey” culture with gender equality and inclusion.
The Fair Work Commission has awarded compensation to an employee who was sacked for refusing to give up her decade-long work-from-home arrangement.
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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

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.
AI is helping workers research, build and articulate workplace complaints with legal precision – and employers are scrambling to keep up.
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.
With the minimum wage and award increases fast approaching, here’s how HR can help their organisations to assess their options.