An employer has successfully appealed against a finding that it needed to consult a worker with a history of criminal charges about dismissing him during his probationary period.
A commissioner has admonished an employer for not following its own policies when varying the roster of an employee who was subject to domestic violence orders against a colleague.
Social conventions around appearance in the workplace and perceptions of what is reasonable have changed drastically, but it is still acceptable for employers to implement and enforce dress codes, a lawyer says.
An "overwhelming majority" of Australian organisations believe HR professionals are responsible for managing workplace mental health issues, but they're ill-equipped to do so, new research shows.
An employer has been ordered to pay a former employee more than $20k, after a commission found her time away on parental leave counted towards her long service leave entitlements.
Employers tend to forget they owe a special duty of care to employees suffering from non-work-related injuries, and dangerously overlook the need to make appropriate workplace adjustments, warns an injury management practitioner.
An employer would have discovered that a new employee couldn't perform an inherent requirement of his role if it had acted on inconsistencies in his criminal history check, an employment lawyer says.
A manager who requested compassionate leave, and received a warning after she didn't comply with a request for evidence, did not suffer adverse action, a court has ruled.
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