An employer has won an appeal against paying nearly $3.9 million in damages to an on-hire worker who was almost thrown from a balcony during a training day at its site.
Many organisations still seem unable to build a "robust, focused set of measurable objectives for employees", say two business strategists with recommendations for assessing employees' potential rather than past performance.
It was unfair of an employer to end a worker's contract after a minor incident, despite his earlier "absolute final warning" for accusing an HR manager of killing his colleague.
Adopting metrics can be challenging and expensive, and the mistake many organisations make is analysing too much data at once, an HR specialist for NRMA Insurance says.
Researchers have highlighted the scenarios where contingent pay models are most likely to be perceived as exploitative or a burden of responsibility, rather than motivating workers to better performance.
Some four years after abandoning its "soul-crushing" and "antiquated" performance review process, Adobe hasn't looked back and is sharing its own method of employee appraisal with other employers.
The Federal Court has shed new light on the distinction between 'recall to duty' and 'overtime' - an increasingly complex issue for employers as workers perform more duties remotely and outside traditional hours.
An employer has been ordered to compensate an HR officer for unfair dismissal, after the Fair Work Commission found it was too quick to sack her for poor performance.
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