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After reaching an important gender diversity target nine months ahead of schedule, Coles is now zeroing in on specific business functions where female representation could improve, according to its DEI lead.

A commissioner has dismissed an employee's "impassioned" but baseless discrimination complaints, noting it was "incredible" that a single incident more than a decade ago had "spawned so many failed legal proceedings and so much personal and professional destruction".

A consultant who helps senior executives navigate change has identified four key trends arising from "adaptive challenges", which in turn require distinct leadership capabilities.

An employer has failed to prove it dismissed a worker for misconduct and performance issues, and not because she'd requested unpaid domestic violence leave.

Enhanced obligations around psychosocial safety should be prompting employers to "pressure test" their approach to mental health and wellbeing, says the leader of an organisation awarded for excellence in these areas.

A stressful and demanding work environment cannot excuse inappropriate behaviour towards subordinates, a tribunal has ruled in rejecting a senior employee's disciplinary action appeal.

If leaders habitually delegate management issues to HR, their people will soon lose respect for them, warns a consultant who says leaders shouldn't just set standards, but more actively enforce them too.

An employee has been awarded $83k in compensation, as well as ongoing weekly payments, for a psychological injury caused by being told he'd need to get a COVID-19 vaccination to continue working.

Organisations tend to focus on underperformance and "over-index", at the expense of helping employees realise their true potential, a culture specialist says.

An absent employee who repeatedly failed to respond to her employer's return-to-work requests has won her unfair dismissal claim, after the Fair Work Commission found she had not "abandoned her employment".