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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.

New research suggests that rather than self-selecting jobs they can perform independently, gay and lesbian employees are often excluded from roles involving greater levels of social interaction.

An employer has successfully sought an exemption from anti-discrimination laws to hire only female candidates for a trainee program.

Performance-driven work cultures require a three-tiered approach to be successful, but leaders tend to focus most on the least important aspect, according to an HR analyst.

Employee complaints about being overlooked for roles in favour of external talent has led global tech firm Oracle to add a team of internal recruiters who just target existing staff.

An employer that dismissed a worker the day after he accused it of underpaying him has convinced the Federal Circuit Court it didn't take unlawful adverse action against him.