After being on restricted duties for nearly seven years, an employee who claimed she might be fit to perform her pre-injury role "at some time in the future" has lost her unfair dismissal claim.
The ANZ operation of a global organisation continues to slash the time employees spend on strategically unimportant work through a simplification project, but its HR director notes that every time an inefficiency is addressed, "something else rises to the top".
The operational variations between 10 employers weren't "significantly" different enough to warrant blocking a supported bargaining authorisation, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled.
Online reviews about employers can "significantly" impact the opinions of thousands of current and potential employees, and how organisations respond can turn "threat management" into an employer branding strategy, new research shows.
It was fair to summarily dismiss a worker who refused to change behaviour that reflected badly on his employer, even though the termination process was flawed, the Fair Work Commission has accepted.
Failing to provide light duties for six months, in line with doctors' recommendations, was unlawful because it "disregarded" the injured employee's right not to be exposed to workplace hazards, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
"Numerous and significant" mitigating factors meant that despite her "brutal public humiliation" of another worker, a long-serving employee has successfully appealed against her proposed dismissal.
After adopting AI, IBM's HR department has achieved a 55% lift in its approval rating from the business, and a dramatic reduction in admin work is opening up opportunities for its HR practitioners to work in L&D, tech-based and client-facing roles.
Questioning the need for an Acknowledgement of Country at the beginning of a weekly meeting was not misconduct that warranted dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Although failing to consult about redundancy would often render a dismissal via retrenchment unfair, an employer has defended an employee's claim based on his "inflexible" approach to workplace matters.
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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