It was fair and reasonable to discipline an employee who participated in her daughter's recruitment process with "blatant disregard" for her conflict of interest, a commission has ruled.
This week's cyber attack on a major HR software provider sends a big warning to employers about vigilance and due diligence in this area, a payroll expert says.
To ignore and isolate a colleague at work "is to dehumanise that person", the Fair Work Commission has said in finding two employees were fairly sacked for bullying.
Equipping employees with better listening skills is having a major impact on mental health conversations, which is in turn building better workplace connections.
Payroll audits have had their day in identifying potential underpayments, and it's time for employers to embrace analytics, says former Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James.
An employee who claimed he "ticked all the boxes" for a promotion was not "kept away" because of his race, a commission has found, accepting evidence that those on the shortlist were more qualified.
Procedural flaws have brought down an employer's unfair dismissal defence, with the Fair Work Commission finding they outweighed an employee's divisive, defiant, intimidating and bullying behaviour.
There is now too much advice about what is wrong with workplaces, and not enough resources going towards prevention and recovery from the "overwhelm epidemic", a leadership and high-performance expert says.
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.
