In the wake of new guidance on workplace vaccination policies, many employers remain unclear about their rights and obligations. Watch this HR Daily Premium webcast for straight facts on where the law and regulators stand on workplace vaccination policies and practices.
HR has a "tendency to overcomplicate things", when its policies and procedures could be much simpler, an examination of workplace culture issues at a major bank suggests.
Two years after new corporate whistleblowing laws commenced, their practical implications for HR processes are coming into the spotlight. Watch this webcast to understand key risk areas and how to mitigate them.
It was unreasonable to place an employee on a performance improvement plan while he was "loaded" with additional duties, but the unfair process wasn't bullying, a commission has ruled.
The Fair Work Ombudsman's new advice on workplace vaccination policies fails to provide the "certainty that most employers are craving" and could in fact create a "battleground" for employers trying to manage refusals, a lawyer says.
Unions have made "unfounded" claims that SPC imposed its vaccination policy without properly consulting workers, and is on a "slippery slope" to mandating medical procedures, the packaging giant says.
The Fair Work Commission has criticised the long and unexplained delay between an employee's disciplinary meeting and her sacking, but found her conduct still justified dismissal.
A casual employee's continuous service was broken when she complied with her employer's direction to resign before going on holidays, and then sign a new contract on her return, the FWC has ruled.
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.
