Taking a "family-friendly" approach to working parents is not just supporting employees but also challenging societal barriers in a male-dominated industry, an HR leader says.
Sacking an employee without formal warning or a chance to respond was "no minor failing" on an employer's part, but the fact it "instructed, retrained, counselled and warned" him as issues arose made the dismissal fair.
An employee has failed to convince a tribunal that a conference call in which she tearfully spoke of her father's death led to her dismissal on the grounds of disability.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld as fair the dismissal of an employee who had a "cavalier" attitude to using a workplace account to fund her coffee habit.
Fear of today's uncertain work environment is limiting employees' engagement with their roles, but employers can turn fear into a "wonderful driver" for high performance.
An employer has failed to convince a Fair Work Commission full bench that an employee had a duty to be honest during an investigation into his out-of-hours fight with a colleague.
New research into why widespread human resource development strategies have "failed" both employees and organisational outcomes identified four major issues as well as their remedies.
An employer responded in a professional, reasonable and sensitive way to a stressed employee's uncharacteristic outburst, the Fair Work Commission has found in rejecting her constructive dismissal claim.
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.
