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A conversation about a person's mental health isn't "an HR thing", it's "a management thing", and one way to ensure those conversations build trust is by taking a gender-sensitive approach, a men's health specialist says.

Reframing workplace psychosocial hazards as an industrial relations area would help organisations improve their risk mitigation and management, researchers say.

A Fair Work Commission full bench has denied an employer permission to appeal against reinstating a sacked worker, ruling there were no errors in a previous finding that the dismissal was valid, but unreasonable.

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Introducing a new employee experience system around the same time as a company-wide culture-change initiative has helped a global employer to monitor, measure and ultimately improve its safety performance.

Requesting medical information about an absent employee was lawful and reasonable under his contract, and his refusal to grant access warranted summary dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Controversial reforms aiming to "stabilise" the NSW workers' compensation scheme will instead "radically reduce" employees' psychological injury rights, according to critics of the proposals.

A full bench of the Fair Work Commission has upheld the reinstatement of an employee who was sacked for taking medically prescribed cannabis, despite his employer's appeal on workplace safety grounds.

The busy nature of HR roles means most teams rarely debrief between stressful events, but making time to do so in a structured way has multiple benefits, according to a conflict specialist.

A challenge most female employees will face in the course of their career, and many when they're hitting their stride, is one that most employees and employers are unprepared for, a doctor warns.