An employer that directed an employee to go on sick leave after she shared numerous conspiracy theories with colleagues unlawfully discriminated against her, a tribunal has found.
Australian jobs are far from being wiped out by automation, but employers are right to be concerned about a growing mismatch between the skills they need and those that will be available, researchers from the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre say.
The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science has recorded an improvement in leadership and management behaviours following a gamification pilot, and plans to roll out the project more broadly.
An employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that being placed on two performance improvement plans after receiving "outstanding" work appraisals amounted to bullying.
Current recruitment service delivery models will fail to fill critical roles in evolving organisations, and cannot support their long-term digital transformation and competitiveness, according to a labour market expert.
An employer that attempted to add "crude" manual labour to a white-collar worker's role has failed in its appeal against paying his redundancy entitlements.
Adjusting organisational processes and procedures in specific ways can "nudge" employees towards the behaviours employers want in their workplaces more effectively than training will, research shows.
Employers might benefit from HR professionals being more "brutally honest" with managers about how they're perceived at work, a leadership consultant says.
Employees can't rely on a lack of social media training to defend online comments that they "would not dream of" making face-to-face, a Fair Work Commissioner has said in upholding a supervisor's dismissal as fair.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
