Category: Workforce Effectiveness
- 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, Workforce Effectiveness
Employees are increasingly being incentivised to return to office, according to recent research, but experts warn a ‘fairness gap’ is growing between in-office and work-from-home employees.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
When can underperformance constitute misconduct? And how much should an employee’s personal circumstances be taken into account?
- Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Workforce Effectiveness
Submissions to the Federal Government’s review of the National Employment Standards highlight several key areas of proposed change, including annual leave, casual employment, AI consultation and redundancy entitlements.
- Featured, Hybrid work, Workforce Effectiveness
The Senate is currently considering a new Bill that would enshrine a legal right to work from home. But the available evidence raises questions about whether new regulation is necessary.
- Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
Informal workplace norms often shape how organisations operate, but they can also expose employers to legal risk.
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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, 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.
- 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.
