Category: Workforce Effectiveness
- 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.
- Employment law, Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The upcoming industrial relations landscape will focus on consolidation. However, there are still some reforms HR should prepare for.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Talent management, Workforce Effectiveness
A new High Court decision confirms that, when considering whether to redeploy an employee due to a redundancy, an employer must consider opportunities broadly – including roles performed by contractors or labour hire workers.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
What if a flexible work request is based on preference rather than a genuine need? A recent FWC case offers important lessons for employers on balancing legal obligations, business needs and employee expectations.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A recent incident involving a “kiss cam” at a Coldplay concert earlier this month has drawn attention to the complications of workplace relationships. A legal expert answers common questions about managing relationships between employees.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Complex performance management issues often require HR to coach managers in how to help employees cope with uncomfortable challenges. Understanding the role of a reasonable management plan is key to this.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A Western Sydney mega-project delivered by John Holland, is acting as the training ground for new flexible working arrangements that are positively transforming employee wellbeing, retention and engagement.
- Featured, Organisational enablement, Productivity, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
HRM sat down with newly appointed Minister of Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth to learn what’s on the government’s agenda for the upcoming term.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A legal expert outlines what these new privacy invasion laws mean for business and how HR can help leaders remain compliant.
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The first public test of the right to disconnect legislation is drawing close attention from business leaders – particularly with small businesses set to come under the new rules from August 2025.
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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
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.
