Australia is performing below global norms for employee experience, with new-hire intent to stay suggesting attention to onboarding hasn't matched employers' focus on talent attraction, an expert says.
Australian businesses are in "a really risky situation at the moment", with new research showing the leading indicators of employee experience are stagnating or declining.
Sharing offensive material with colleagues on social media was "abject stupidity", a Fair Work Commission full bench has found, but the conduct wasn't sufficiently connected to work to justify dismissal.
An employee was inappropriately accused of "criminal" conduct then subjected to a procedurally deficient investigation, the Fair Work Commission has found in upholding her unfair dismissal claim.
A commission has criticised an employee's complaint about a "racist and s-xually inappropriate" Microsoft Teams message, finding it unnecessarily consumed "countless" work hours and thousands of dollars in lost productivity.
Australian employers raised median base salaries by 4% for existing employees in 2023, and in 2024 they're expecting to do the same, major remuneration research shows.
Many employers are effectively engaging in "catfishing" with prospective employees by not portraying an honest picture of their EVP, a recruitment specialist says.
An employee's claims that she was "intimidated", "mobbed" and "coerced" at work were "unfounded and nonsensical" allegations designed to "pollute" her general protections claim with scandal, the Fair Work Commission has chided.
Two related companies and a director, who sexually harassed multiple young employees, have been convicted and fined a total of $290k. Meanwhile the Federal Government is reportedly rolling back some casual reforms in the Closing Loopholes Bill.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
