Australia is on the precipice of unprecedented workplace change, but regulation and policy discussions focus too much on "yesterday's problems", warns Business Council of Australia chief executive, Jennifer Westacott.
In a webinar on 17 September, learn how to conduct a procedurally fair investigation, and make decisions that will stand up to scrutiny. Premium members should click through to request a pass, while free subscribers can upgrade their membership level here for access.
Employers that require information about an employee's medical condition can direct them to attend a medical examination, but must take care to ensure the direction is "lawful and reasonable" an employment lawyer warns.
The Fair Work Commission has banned a manager from contact with two employees for two years, in only the second orders it has issued under the anti-bullying regime.
Managing an ill, injured or absent employee back into, or out of, the workplace requires a cautious approach. This webcast will help you ensure every step taken minimises rather than adds to your organisation's legal risks.
S-xual harassment "doesn't pop out of nowhere", and employers could do more to foster workplace cultures that prevent it, according to S-x Discrimination Commissioner Liz Broderick.
A long-serving employee who justified an altercation with a colleague as "a man's right to fight back" was harshly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The Productivity Commission has recommended further clarifying the Fair Work Act's general protections provisions, and capping the compensation that can be awarded in adverse action claims, in its review of the workplace relations system.
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.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
