With generational diversity comes different values, experiences and competencies that can benefit an organisation, but also a range of preferences that can cause division, a leadership specialist warns.
The "commensurate" positions an employer offered its workers because their roles were no longer required were in fact demotions that repudiated their employment contracts, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Loneliness might still be seen as a "personal" problem, but it reduces productivity and compromises psychological safety, so there's a strong business case for employers to "get interested, and intentional".
If leaders aren't aware of the power they wield and its impact on others, they're much more likely to exercise it in ways that compromise psychosocial safety, a leadership specialist says.
Withdrawing a job offer after a candidate made "persistent phone calls and negative comments" could not have been an "illegal termination", because no employment relationship yet existed, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An executive's acceptance of a mutual separation offer via email amounted to a binding settlement, even though he never signed the deed of release, the Fair Work Commission has found in throwing out his general protections dispute.
An employer had a valid reason to dismiss an employee who breached its code of conduct, and its decision was fair regardless of whether she'd been specifically trained in the circumstances that led to her actions, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Regularly pressuring an employee to work overtime posed a "real risk" to his health and safety, and was just one example of the repeated unreasonable conduct that forced him to resign, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Transforming an outdated HR system so it's fit for purpose doesn't have to be expensive or time-intensive, but it does require realistic expectations, according to a CPO.
A young white employee "imputed with conservative political beliefs" has had his general protections bid thrown out, after a court found his claim was largely a "crusade" against diversity and inclusion.
