It was reasonably foreseeable that accommodating an employee's preferred rostering arrangement would prompt similar requests from other workers, potentially causing an employer to suffer "significant" efficiency and productivity losses, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Few employers understand the extent to which "childcare disruption" drives unplanned leave in their workforce, leading to a lack of support that also undermines their gender equality efforts, according to an executive with first-hand experience of the problem.
Academic research has added weight to the business case for HR investment, finding organisations are more productive when they offer work-life balance and reduce their gender pay gap.
Adjusting an employee's roster to accommodate her caring responsibilities wouldn't have imposed a significant burden on an employer, and its refusal amounted to discrimination, a tribunal has ruled.
After making workplace adjustments to accommodate an employee's disability, an employer had reasonable business grounds to refuse his request to work fully remotely, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Reframing leadership as a "trust-based, outcome-oriented practice" has helped managers at a newly-hybrid company to lead more efficiently and effectively, according to researchers who studied the transformation.
An employee had "understandable" reasons for wanting a flexible work arrangement that would allow her to move interstate, but her request wasn't causally connected to her parenting status, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The humiliation of having to express breastmilk in a storeroom was "obvious", the Federal Circuit Court has ruled, in upholding an employee's discrimination and adverse action claims.
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