Personalised welcome packs, one-on-one coaching and extensive induction training set new recruits at MECCA Brands up for success from day one, according to its HR director.
The extent of employers' duty of care to employees during workplace investigations is set to be examined by the High Court, after a worker who unsuccessfully sued for damages following an "insensitive" investigation was granted special leave to appeal the ruling.
The top-ranked company on Australia's best places to work list provides recruitment training to every line manager involved in its hiring, and boasts single-digit attrition rates.
The Fair Work Commission has found an employer took unreasonable management action against an employee, but has dismissed his stop-bullying application because the incidents weren't "repeated".
Deloitte is changing the way it attracts and engages contingent workers, focusing less on the financial and risk elements so it can take a "talent-first" approach, its head of talent acquisition says.
An employer's delay in refusing an employee's annual leave request, and its subsequent decision to dismiss her, amounted to "serious mismanagement", the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer that's currently retaining all its top 100 employees says the key to its revamped retention strategy was simply more effectively leveraging what it already had in place.
Automation is only likely to take over the routine parts of work, leaving employees with more time to perform tasks that involve intuition, influencing and context, according to a futurist.
An award-winning employer has generated "enormous" autonomy and engagement by setting a clear expectation that every employee at every level is a leader, according to its head of HR.
Failing to offer an employee a support person for a disciplinary meeting contributed to his "heat of the moment" resignation and ultimately made the termination of his employment unfair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
Recent events have shone a spotlight on whistleblowing, placing employers firmly on notice that their response to a protected disclosure could be subject to intense scrutiny. Watch this webcast to understand the role HR plays in this challenging space.
