Category: Workforce Effectiveness
- Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
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.
- Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
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.
- Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
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.
- Featured, Organisational enablement, Workforce Effectiveness
KPMG is responding to AI disruption by evolving its strategic workforce planning approach.
- Featured, Legal, Workforce Effectiveness
Here are the key industrial relations reforms for HR to keep on their radars in 2026.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
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.
- Featured, Section, Trusted partnership, Workforce Effectiveness
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.
- Featured, Section, Talent management, Workforce Effectiveness
A legal expert answers seven common questions about sick leave and medical certificates, such as what to do if you suspect a medical certificate has been fabricated or if an employee takes sick leave right after being denied an annual leave request.
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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
An employee was recently awarded over $36,000 by the Fair Work Commission due to flaws in her employer’s workplace investigation process. What can HR learn from this decision?
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
Several recent cases heard by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) suggest verbal agreements in the workplace can carry more legal weight than some employers realise.
- Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
In a climate where diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are under scrutiny, how can HR help ensure their organisation’s gender equality targets stay on track?
- Featured, Legal, Workplace Health and Safety
Social media may be considered part of the workplace for politicians, finds NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT). Where can HR draw the line in terms of their legal obligations around an employee’s online activity?