Workplace mental health programs should give employees clear instructions on how to respond when someone isn't coping, to prevent 'amateur counselling', according to an HR director.
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.
Coffee breaks and social chats might be the most common ways that workers re-energise between work tasks, but they're not the best strategies, new research shows.
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 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.
Employers that wait for repeated or extended absences to become an issue before taking action could find themselves having to "start from scratch" when it comes to managing a worker back into or out of the workplace, says Ashurst senior associate Shannon Chapman.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
