An employee who admitted to smoking marijuana while on annual leave was not unfairly sacked over a positive test when he returned to work, nor treated less fairly than his colleagues, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Given that ideas surrounding gender are "always evolving", it's important to transition those ideas into policies and practices, says the people leader at an award-winning LGBT-inclusive employer.
Ahead of Labor legislating a positive duty to prevent workplace s-xual harassment, there is still a false but "prevailing sense" among employers that having policies and training in place will be enough to discharge it, a lawyer says.
After sacking an employee for a code of conduct breach involving a consensual s-xual interaction, an employer has successfully appealed against orders to reinstate and compensate him.
Australia's work-from-home experience is "still very much in progress", but employers and employees alike would benefit from a voluntary code of practice setting out standard conditions and expectations, new research suggests.
Until now 'flexible' work has largely been limited by boundaries and parameters, but leading employers are replacing their policies with frameworks as they shift family-friendly practices up a gear.
Five guiding principles are enabling employers to shape hybrid work around their own people, culture and practices, an employee experience specialist says.
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.
Recent events have shone a spotlight on whistleblowing, placing employers firmly on notice that their response to a protected disclosure could be subject to intense scrutiny. Watch this webcast to understand the role HR plays in this challenging space.
