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.
An absent employee's excuse for failing to obtain medical certificates was not, as he claimed, "a small white lie to avoid embarrassment" but rather "a calculated attempt to mislead" that justified dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.
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.
