An employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that COVID-19 rendered his sales targets unachievable and that he shouldn't have been dismissed for poor performance.
An employer that failed to list its true reasons for sacking an employee in its termination letter has been ordered to compensate her for unfair dismissal.
Psychological injury risks and mental health issues are receiving heightened levels of HR attention in light of pandemic-related stresses and remote working. This webcast discusses employers' legal obligations in this space, including reasonable adjustment considerations and implications for managing work processes.
Overhauling performance management to focus on "really great conversations" and agile goals has had an overwhelming response from employees while allowing HR to cast off its image as "performance police", an HR leader says.
An employee who admitted to making errors in her work even after receiving a final warning did not receive "explicit and plain and clear enough" notice to make her dismissal fair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer's belief that an employee should have been coping better with a former colleague's death showed an "old world (and dangerous) view of male stoicism", the Fair Work Commission has ruled in ordering compensation for his unfair dismissal.
About 20% of employees are "chronic procrastinators", but scheduling time for procrastination is actually an effective way to boost a workplace's culture and productivity, a specialist says.
An underperforming employee who normally would have been sacked during probation "slipped through the cracks", but his manager's diligent performance management process made the dismissal fair.
The pandemic has highlighted mental health as a major issue that employers can't ignore, and in this Q&A a lawyer sets out some considerations for fostering a culture where employees feel comfortable to disclose conditions.
An employer that was unaware of an employee's significant mental health condition, which affected his work performance and relationships with managers, is not liable to compensate him for his injury.
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.
