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A commission has ordered an employer to compensate an employee for a psychological injury he suffered after it failed to address his excessive workload and mismanaged allegations against him.

Increasing visibility of career development opportunities and scrapping unnecessary role requirements were among Aon's most effective HR strategies last year, according to its people and culture director.

A long-serving employee with a history of misconduct has successfully claimed unfair dismissal, despite the Fair Work Commission likening him to a workplace "dinosaur".

An employee who claimed her comments about a supervisor's weight were a "scientific fact" rather than bullying has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission she was unfairly dismissed.

The case of a contractor who funnelled more than $500k in payments to his own accounts over five months holds important lessons on preventing fraud, says NSW corruption watchdog ICAC.

The Fair Work Commission has ordered an employer to reinstate an employee whose role was made redundant, after slamming its consultation failures and "shoddy" record-keeping.

The Federal Circuit Court has criticised an HR business partner's defence of an adverse action claim, finding she sacked an employee on probation for making workplace complaints.

An employer that waited a year to sack an employee after discovering he had a criminal history has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission the dismissal was fair.

Traditional methods for assessing the worth of a role are past their use-by date, and a new value-centric mindset is needed for strategic workforce planning, according to an expert in the field.

An employer has paid a candidate $2,500 compensation and revised its recruitment processes after the Australian Human Rights Commission found it had unlawfully discriminated on the basis of a criminal conviction.