Category: Workforce Effectiveness
Arm yourself with the information your organisation needs to comply with the new Pay Days super changes, which come into effect from 1 July.
Employee departures can open the door to compliance, data security and reputational risks. Here’s how HR can strengthen employment contracts and tighten their offboarding processes to reduce exposure and protect the business.
An employee who refused to work from his employer’s office has failed in his bid to overturn his dismissal. An expert says the ruling offers multiple lessons for HR.
Employees are increasingly hiding their use of AI and blurring the lines between personal and work AI use. This creates compliance, security and privacy risks that HR and legal teams must untangle.
KPMG is responding to AI disruption by evolving its strategic workforce planning approach.
Here are the key industrial relations reforms for HR to keep on their radars in 2026.
A recent Federal Court ruling found a large Australian multinational employer must pay almost $100,000 for failing to consult its workforce over Christmas rostering decisions. A legal expert unpacks this case and shares other tips for ensuring end-of-year celebrations remain safe and compliant.
At the 15th annual Ron McCallum Debate, panellists challenged long-held assumptions about fairness and productivity. Their reflections reveal what HR practitioners should prioritise to build more inclusive, sustainable and high-performing workplaces.
- Featured, Future of Work, Organisational enablement, Section, Strategic HR, Talent management, Workforce Effectiveness
To move organisations through disruption, HR must sit at the helm of workforce agility, actively redesigning work and embracing the skills-powered organisation to stay ahead, says Mercer’s global advisory leader Kate Bravery.
- AHRI Podcast, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Future of Work, Organisational enablement, Section, Talent management, Workforce Effectiveness
As organisations grapple with shifting employee expectations and the rise of AI, Mercer’s Kate Bravery says it’s time to rewrite the rules of work. In the ‘people age’, loyalty looks different – and so must the way HR designs, rewards and sustains work.
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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
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.
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.
