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'Blind' recruitment is one small step organisations can take to reduce discrimination, but it's far from being a silver bullet, an organisational psychologist says.

Despite their "obsessive inner drive" to work, workaholics are less productive and more prone to depression, new research has found. This article also highlights new figures on graduate salaries, the seven steps that lead to employee referral success, and which workplaces are truly inclusive of LGBTI employees.

Employers with training and policies on domestic violence must go a step further and address the workplace practices that perpetuate gender inequality, or remain part of the problem, warns an expert.

A strong brand doesn't always make it easier to recruit the right people, according to an HR leader whose company is running novel programs to raise awareness of its opportunities.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has suggested it should be easier for employees to pursue workplace discrimination claims in court, in a major report on age and disability discrimination.

A self-proclaimed workplace relations specialist that unfairly sacked an injured worker has won an application to ban a decision regarding remedy. Meanwhile, new gender reporting requirements will help employers identify their inequality 'hot spots', and AHRI has called for long service leave amendments.

Women score higher than men on nearly all the emotional competencies associated with effective leadership, making them far more likely to retain team members, new research shows. Read this and other studies on executive selection, the productivity benefits of short breaks, and grad recruitment ROI.

Employers should monitor gender equality efforts in the same way as financial targets, a new PwC report urges, after finding no improvement in the gender wage gap or increase in female full-time employment in Australia over the past year.

An employer's narrow focus on reasonable adjustments resulted in discrimination, a tribunal has found. Meanwhile, new research shows the "startling" difference between salaries of top-tier male and female managers; how Male Champions of Change organisations have progressed gender diversity; and what organisations are doing to counter expected skills gaps.