The "external shock" of gender pay gap reporting will end up strengthening HR's standing and influence, if Australia's experience mirrors that of participants in a UK study.
Employers are reporting strong hiring intentions for their HR departments this year, according to new research. Meanwhile DEI programs are crumbling under "anti-woke" pressure in the United States.
When an employer failed to communicate its retirement policy to an employee until after it found his replacement, in effect it unfairly dismissed him, according to the Fair Work Commission.
The publication of employers' gender pay gaps has noticeably driven up the focus and attention given to pay equity, according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
Overall salary increase budgets remained steady at 4% in 2024, but merit increase budgets hit their highest level in the past 10 years, according to Mercer's annual remuneration research.
Expanding the National Employment Standards to include an entitlement to reproductive leave might help individuals, but it doesn't solve the problem of a "resounding silence about menopause in the workplace", an expert says.
As flexibility becomes the new normal, organisations are approaching what they offer in new ways that better support their employees' work-life balance, a major report on benefits shows.
An employer's application for approval of a new enterprise agreement has been rejected by the Fair Work Commission, which found it didn't pass the better-off-overall test and wasn't genuinely agreed to by the workforce.
