Category: Workforce Effectiveness
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Unsure whether you can veto an employees’ choice of support person or what to do if they become disruptive? Experts outline the 101 of support people in difficult HR meetings.
- Employment law, Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Adverse action claims can be highly nuanced, complex and contextual. An employment lawyer shares some foundational information that all HR practitioners need to know.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
When having to deal with the unfortunate reality of workplace redundancies, it’s important to ensure that communication strategies are robust and that consultation obligations are met.
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The Right to Disconnect allows employees to refuse contact not only from their employer, but also from external third parties. How can HR balance the new legislation with meeting customer and client needs?
- Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The Right to Disconnect has now officially come into effect. To help ensure organisations maintain compliance with the new legislation, the government has released guidance for employers.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
The rise of global hiring represents a huge opportunity for recruiters, but legal and jurisdictional complexities can introduce challenges for HR. Use these tips to optimise your strategy for recruiting and managing overseas workers.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
Recent updates to the Migration Act have introduced new rules for engaging migrant workers, including improved flexibility for sponsored migrants who wish to leave their employer.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
With wage theft in the spotlight, carefully monitoring payroll compliance is more critical than ever. Here are five ways accidental underpayments can occur, and how to prevent errors like these slipping through the cracks.
- Featured, Performance, Section, Senior HR profile, Workforce Effectiveness
To grow high-performing teams, organisations need to prioritise relationships, ensure regular debriefs and allow time for recovery, says sports psychologist Dr Pippa Grange.
- Featured, Legal, Section, Workforce Effectiveness
A recent Federal Court case has shed light on the complexities of dismissal decisions involving multiple stakeholders.
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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?