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An employee who described her colleagues as unprofessional and lazy, and said her job was boring and beneath her, has failed to convince the Federal Circuit Court that her dismissal was actually triggered by her taking sick leave.

The Fair Work Commission has refused an HR manager's request to correct its erroneous reporting of her conduct towards an employee who accused her of bullying.

An employee who suffered ongoing s-xual harassment by her manager should not bear any of the blame for continuing to put herself in close proximity to him, a tribunal has ruled.

The new employee share scheme regime makes options a much more attractive inclusion in remuneration packages, improving an employer's ability to motivate and retain executives and high performers. Find out what the changes entail in this webcast.

Corporate crises such as the collapse of Enron and the Fukushima nuclear disaster could have been prevented with more active HR management, according to a risk management expert.

Employers should tailor their motivation techniques for the changing nature of work, not a shift in the generations undertaking it, says an HR analytics expert.

A worker who resigned after her employer unilaterally raised her sales targets has successfully claimed it was a forced dismissal and amounted to adverse action.

An organisation unlawfully discriminated against an employee when it acted on an HR manager's misinterpretion of advice about the worker's medical condition, a court has found.

A new Fair Work ruling casts doubt on the ability of employers to ensure the confidentiality of information employees provide during a workplace investigation, should the matter proceed to a hearing.

A worker was fairly sacked for breaking one of his employer's 'cardinal rules', despite procedural failings in its HR practices, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.