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Employers on alert about 'skipping steps' in workplace policies
The seven-figure damages award arising from a mishandled termination process serves as an extra reminder for employers to consider the interplay between employment contracts and company policies and procedures, a workplace lawyer says.
The High Court decision, handed down in December last year, makes damages for psychiatric injury one of 2025's 'HR hot spots', King & Wood Mallesons' senior consultant Brett Feltham says in a new HR Daily Premium webcast.
For many years now, employers have been warned to think very carefully about the risk of workplace policies and procedures being incorporated into an employee's contractual terms, Feltham notes...
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