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When leaders start living healthier, more balanced lives, and encouraging their people to do the same, it completely changes how they "show up", according to an executive who speaks from hard-won experience.

An employer has acknowledged its failure to use internal HR support before making an employee's role redundant, which resulted in an order to pay $20k for unfair dismissal.

The ABC's employee complaints process is "not straightforward" and lacking in follow-up, to the extent that calls into question its ability to ensure a safe workplace, a review has found.

In neglecting to provide clear evidence of who initiated serious misconduct allegations against an employee, an employer has failed to prove it didn't take unlawful adverse action against her.

Quiet conflicts exist in every workplace, but by implementing five key principles, leaders can address the underlying 'primal' drivers and facilitate effective resolution, says a conflict coach.

It was harsh to summarily sack an employee for timesheet fraud, even though his ongoing performance issues warranted dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in awarding him five weeks' pay as compensation.

"Connecting the dots" between previously disjointed HR processes has helped an organisation save hundreds of days of administrative effort each year, and dramatically improve its employee experience.

An employer must put in place new anti-bullying measures and keep two senior employees apart, after it found itself caught between retaining a "key employee" and its commitment to a bullied CFO.

The seriousness of an employee's misconduct outweighed the personal and professional harshness of his dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, finding it was fair to sack him for hitting a minor with a tennis racquet.

Dismissing an employee who used excessive emojis and wrote a poem that made a colleague uncomfortable was not unlawful adverse action, the Fair Work Commission has accepted.