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'.
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.
An organisation looking to bolster its competitiveness is trialling a new mix of remote and onsite work, and reshaping HR's role to maintain the wellbeing focus it built during the pandemic.
'B-suite' leaders now face a particularly high risk of burnout, but they can reduce it using four steps to control the pace of work, an experienced leader and advisor says.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
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