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- Employment law, HR policies and procedures, Leadership, Legal, Performance, Section
Nepotism can have far-reaching impacts, including on a company’s bottom line. How should HR respond to nepotism? For those of you who are curious about idioms, you might be surprised when you look up the origin of the phrase “Bob’s your uncle”. Most of us understand the phrase to mean “everything will be ok” –…
- Health, wellbeing and safety, Performance, Section, Strategic HR
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average Australian full time worker spends about 40.7 hours a week at work. However many spend far more time working, whether it’s emails on the weekend, or long work hours that stretch into the evening. In the modern workplace, technology makes it easier to clock up long…
- Performance, Section, Strategic HR
According to Gallup, 65 percent of surveyed employees reported that they received no recognition over the last 12 months for their work. In the same report, 89 percent of employers feel that most employees leave their companies to earn more money. But, most workers who leave their jobs cite lack of employee recognition as a major…
- Featured, Innovation, Recruitment, Section
Although Human Resources left behind the ‘Personnel’ tag along with the metal filing cabinets a long time ago, the profession has never seemed entirely at ease with the names that replaced it.
- Employment law, Featured, HR policies and procedures, Section
The importance of well-written employee guidelines cannot be overstated. Here’s how to make a perfect policies and procedures document.
- Culture and diversity, Featured, HR policies and procedures, Section, Workplace Health and Safety
Managing carer’s leave can be tricky, for both the employer and the employee. And sometimes simply meeting your obligations under the law isn’t enough.
- HR policies and procedures, Legal, Section
In Australia, at least, “You’re fired” really does only work as a catchphrase.
- Section, Strategic HR
When it comes to organisational transformation a few key things can set a company up for long-term success. One of these is dynamic human resources management that ensures initiatives and strategies are executed from the ground up. In the lead-up to the annual AHRI awards, we spoke with one nominee about how he’s harnessed company-wide innovation to achieve tangible outcomes.
- Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Section
Stress: We all have to live with it to some extent. But what happens when an employee asks to take stress leave? What are your obligations?
- Culture and diversity, Featured, Legal, Section
After France’s burkini ban backfired, questions about wearing hijabs and other religious symbols are flying. What do you need to know as an employer?
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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.
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- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
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.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
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.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
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.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
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.
