Category: Workforce Effectiveness
Navigating redundancies is a challenging and sensitive process for all involved. Proper support and management before, during and after the process can mitigate risk, protect morale and ensure compliance.
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.
Adverse action claims can be highly nuanced, complex and contextual. An employment lawyer shares some foundational information that all HR practitioners need to know.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
To grow high-performing teams, organisations need to prioritise relationships, ensure regular debriefs and allow time for recovery, says sports psychologist Dr Pippa Grange.
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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.
