An employer that made change an ongoing, business-as-usual initiative rather than a short-term project run by consultants has increased employee engagement by 20 percentage points.
Recruitment is on the verge of a new frontier with predictive analytics, where it will be possible to match candidates to roles "within seconds" of receiving their CVs, an industry futurist says.
A bullied employee has failed to convince the full Federal Court that a $100 nominal damages award she received for employment contract breaches should be increased to $1.6 million.
The Fair Work Commission's decision to have all modern awards allow for casual-to-permanent conversion requests should prompt employers to rethink how they monitor their employees' hours, specialists say.
The fact it took an employer two weeks to sack an employee for a confidentiality breach indicated summary dismissal wasn't a reasonable response to his misconduct, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Taking a gradual approach to HR upskilling is helping Nestle roll out a new workforce planning system across its business in minimal time, one of its people leaders says.
CEOs and CIOs are again among the skilled occupations eligible for visas with a permanent residency pathway, addressing a "key oversight" in earlier changes to the overseas worker regime.
The Fair Work Commission has made a "rare and unusual" decision to award an employer indemnity costs after a worker lodged a general protections claim that was "doomed to fail".
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