Accenture is working with employees on setting clear boundaries around their work and having open conversations about time management, its HR leader says.
An employee who claimed his employer took unlawful adverse action against him after he made 244 workplace complaints has been awarded $184k in compensation and damages.
Upward bullying is on the rise despite remaining "completely under-disclosed", and employers are finding it harder to manage this issue in a remote work context, a lawyer says.
An employer has lost its objection to compensating an employee whose blood pressure spiked in response to escalating workplace stress, causing a serious heart injury.
After letting go half of its workforce last year, Flight Centre has attained record-high engagement levels and is now implementing a 're-retention strategy'.
Employers are "mourning" the IR omnibus Bill's ill-fated enterprise bargaining changes, but there are plenty of other developments in this space to watch and prepare for, an employment lawyer says.
The Fair Work Commission has found an employee would have accepted a demotion and pay cut rather than "face the unemployment queue" during COVID-19, in awarding him maximum compensation for unfair dismissal.
There's a difference between deliberate deceit and misleading statements, the Fair Work Commission has stressed, in finding that summary dismissal was a disproportionate response to an employee's misconduct.
An employee who was told his position was being made redundant "almost immediately" after returning to work from a long absence is entitled to compensation for a psychological injury, a commission has ruled.
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.
