No amount of turnover in an HR team could explain the "grossly excessive" time it took to act on a recommendation to terminate a suspended employee, the Fair Work Commission has criticised.
It wasn't unreasonable or unjust to find a long-serving employee's "sheer number of absences" weighed in favour of his dismissal being valid, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled.
Effective competency and capability frameworks can boost performance and productivity, but too often they're a set of stagnant documents instead of active systems, a specialist warns.
Although an employee became "disillusioned" during her performance management, the process was fair, and she had options other than agreeing to terminate her employment, the Fair Work Commission has found in rejecting her unfair dismissal claim.
Some HR functions could shrink by up to 50% over the next four years as part of the "agentic revolution", while delivering significantly more value, according to a leading consulting firm.
An employer isn't liable to compensate an employee who suffered a psychological injury after being informed of an "inappropriate behaviour" complaint against him, a tribunal has affirmed.
An employee's misconduct didn't involve "innocuous indiscretions", as he claimed, but rather a pattern of inappropriate and careless behaviour, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in unfair dismissal proceedings.
Managing an employee who is absent due to injury or incapacity is one of the most difficult aspects of being an HR professional. Watch this webcast for a deep dive into some common challenges.
