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The fact employees must be "better off overall" under enterprise agreements doesn't preclude employers from negotiating "hugely beneficial" arrangements, according to a workplace law specialist.

An employer that faced nearly 200 discrimination and bullying complaints in a year found just 10 per cent were substantiated, according to its sustainability report. Meanwhile, the ABS has found nearly one in three employees regularly work from home; "worrying" productivity trends have prompted a national campaign; and more.

An employer breached its duty of care by allowing a manager to work excessive hours, while largely disregarding his health complaints, a court has ruled.

Employees need greater understanding of what bullying is not, and new language for conflict, so not all interpersonal issues are managed through workplace bullying processes, a mediation specialist says.

Employers that want to make casual employees permanent should include new entitlement calculations in their considerations, an employment lawyer says.

An HR manager's response to an employee's complaints contributed to his psychological injury but constituted reasonable management action, a commission has ruled.

An employer has failed to prove that documents from a s-xual harassment investigation were primarily created to obtain legal advice and shouldn't be made available to a dismissed employee.

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