Employers should never underestimate the impact of microaggressions and other "low-level" entrenched behaviours, as they can escalate "very rapidly", an HR advisor says in our new series, 'From case to culture'.
An "attitude of reticence or disinclination" towards making intractable bargaining declarations goes against the reforms' intentions, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled.
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It was "difficult to understand" how an employee's private sexual conversations with someone outside of work became a work-related matter, a commission has commented in upholding his appeal.
Executives' misplaced fears around liability are standing in the way of psychosocial safety management, while increasing "the far greater risks of inaction", experts warn.
Temporarily moving a supervisor to a different role after she reported feeling overwhelmed repudiated her employment contract and resulted in a constructive dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A new tort designed to protect individuals against intentional or reckless invasions of privacy places additional obligations on HR and employers, a lawyer says.
Employers should be much more interested in the information they're collecting about employees, including from "private" conversations held on work platforms, according to a lawyer.
The Fair Work Commission has considered in detail what constitutes sexual harassment, and what doesn't, in upholding the dismissal of an employee who denied his messages about "love" and requests for a date had any sexual element.
