When social media posts caused an employer to doubt the validity of an employee's personal leave, it was entitled to seek further information, a commission has ruled in discrimination proceedings.
An employee doesn't have to correctly identify an employer to make a valid general protections claim against it, a Fair Work Commission full bench has affirmed.
The speed with which one employee's bad behaviour can taint an entire brand means it pays to consider all employees as ambassadors, according to an executive coach and communications specialist.
It wasn't reasonable to require an employee to "identify feelings within himself and how they may present in others" as part of a performance improvement plan, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in unfair dismissal proceedings.
The Federal Government has released its long-awaited response to a Fair Work Act review, committing to further consideration of the fixed-term contract limits and encouraging sector-specific efforts to pursue exceptions.
It's crucial to distinguish between 'fit' and 'alignment' when making hiring and promotion decisions, but often organisations either conflate the two, or prioritise the wrong one, an organisational psychologist says.
Failing to give an employee even a "brief opportunity" to provide evidence of her current and future fitness for work made her dismissal unfair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Connecting with the parents of young workers helps set them up for success, and can prevent some issues that otherwise typically arise, a chief people officer says.
Dismissing an employee over the phone before the end of his performance improvement plan was fair, the Fair Work Commission has found, in circumstances where he hadn't ever met his sales targets.
