Salary increases are becoming less about retention and more about individual or organisational performance, with 70% of employers using benefits to enhance their remuneration packages, new research shows.
An employee's successful discrimination claim is likely the start of a new body of case law that will consider how unconscious bias affects workplace decision-making, a lawyer warns.
Some two-thirds of employees believe their work experience can be better, but the figure is even higher among HR professionals, new research shows. Meanwhile cost-of-living pressures are impacting the workplace.
There has been a significant reduction in average workplace tenure, with the "optimum" time spent in a role now between three and four years, according to new research.
Award changes giving overtime rates to a group of workers who weren't previously entitled to them are unlikely to impact many employers, but a provision excluding managers reinforces the importance of making that distinction clear in contracts.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
