Modifications to an employee's incentive scheme and role effectively repudiated his employment contract, leaving his employer powerless to stop him from courting former clients, an appeal court has found.
Improving executive visibility and encouraging employee feedback has increased trust in one organisation's workplace by 11 per cent in a year, according to a senior leader.
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.
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.
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