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During the "silly season" HR professionals must be extra vigilant about managing workplace behaviour and culture issues. Watch this webinar to learn a framework for minimising your organisation's risks.



People+Culture Strategies managing principal Joydeep Hor describes a compliance model for managing workplace behaviour risks, including sexual harassment and bullying.

It can be hard to keep up with new tools and technology in the recruitment space, but employers have "got to put a stake in the ground and start", says recruitment and social media specialist Paul Jacobs.

Every organisation is potentially at risk of damage - to its reputation, assets, morale and much more - from its employees' use of social media.



In this presentation, employment lawyer Nick Noonan outlines:

• Employers' rights to monitor and regulate employees' social media use;
• Employees' obligations when using social media;
• What to include in a social media policy;
• Employer risks in using social media in the recruitment process;
• The interaction between social media and privacy laws; and
• Recent case law involving social media issues in the workplace.

Employers will increasingly turn to crowdsourcing over outsourcing in the next decade, according to HR experts Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd, who predict social technologies will soon become a driving force in recruitment and corporate innovation.

An employee's failed unfair dismissal claim - lodged after he was sacked over a Facebook rant - reinforces that the concept of the "workplace" is not limited to its physical environment, says employment lawyer Lisa Berton.

"Social learning" is breaking down traditional thinking about staff development and offers employers a much simpler and more cost-effective way to train their people, says Robert Yue.

Here's the thing: Social media, and the effect it might have on your brand, your connectivity, your business performance, your quality of hire, is so intangible, so ethereal, that it would be like trying to catch the wind. The thing is to just do it...

Is it illegal to Google a candidate? Does doing so increase the likelihood of a discrimination claim? Who owns LinkedIn connections? Employment lawyer Nick Noonan answers these questions and more.

Drumming up support for social media initiatives and a referral program was "challenging", but Deloitte Australia now saves about $6 million annually on its recruitment costs, according to recruitment and mobility leader James Elliott.

Workplace s*xual harassment litigation is increasingly following an "alarming formula" that HR professionals should be aware of, says PCS managing principal, Joydeep Hor.