Category: Workforce Effectiveness
- Featured, Flexible work, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Striking the right balance between business needs, legal obligations and employee welfare is key when handling a flexible work request. Use these tips to ensure your approach is fair and compliant.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A recent FWC case highlights the fine line between dismissing a casual employee and the employment relationship coming to a natural end.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The latest rounds of reform to Australia’s migration system present both challenges and opportunities for employers. Here’s what HR needs to know.
- Case study, Featured, Organisational enablement, Section, Talent management, Workforce Effectiveness
Technology company OneStop turned its attention to flexibility, talent management and learning and development as part of its revamped employee experience strategy. Here’s how its People & Culture team succeeded in boosting engagement and reducing turnover.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A dance instructor was awarded nearly $25,000 in compensation after his unfair dismissal for refusing to take out the rubbish between shifts. The FWC’s considerations in this case, including the employee’s visa status and his resignation in the heat of the moment, carry important lessons for HR.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
After two years of significant legislative changes, 2025 will likely be about putting these changes into practice and ensuring compliance. An employment lawyer shares what HR practitioners need to prioritise.
- Featured, Section, Strategic HR, Workforce Effectiveness
Implementing High-Performance Work Systems helps HR create the conditions for employees and workplaces to perform at their best, new research shows.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Australian employers could now be liable for psychiatric injuries that arise from contract breaches following a recent High Court ruling. Here’s what you need to know.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The FWC recently overruled an unfair dismissal claim when it came to light that the employee had secretly recorded a conversation at work – a fact revealed after the dismissal took place. What can HR learn from this ruling?
- Featured, Health, wellbeing and safety, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Over a fifth of Australian employees have racked up four weeks of unused annual leave or more, according to a recent report. What implications might this have for organisations – and how should HR respond?
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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.
