The Federal Government has introduced a bill to establish a "new specialist parliamentary human resources agency", to better deal with workplace misconduct.
An organisation is changing how its employees think about emerging technologies by allowing them to experiment with AI to streamline their work, according to its CPO.
A rise in employees "weaponising" bullying allegations for strategic reasons now requires a more measured response from HR, according to an employment lawyer.
"Ongoing" performance monitoring, along with a team leader's management style and a heavy workload, caused an employee's psychological injury, a commission has ruled in rejecting an employer's 'reasonable action' defence.
An employer has failed to prove that accommodating an injured employee's return to work would have caused it unjustifiable hardship, with the Federal Circuit Court ordering it to pay him $44k for discrimination.
Work can be "as addictive as drugs or alcohol", but workaholism isn't receiving enough attention as a psychosocial health issue to manage, according to an occupational psychologist.
An employer's generalised allegations about an employee's "inflammatory and abusive" workplace behaviour were not enough to support its decision to dismiss him, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A regulator has found two employers failed in their duty to minimise or eliminate workplace psychosocial risks, after one introduced a new performance management system without proper consultation, and the other placed excessive and ongoing work demands on its staff.
It's up to recruiters and hiring managers to ensure the language barrier doesn't become an employment barrier for ESL candidates, according to an expert who says that unless spoken language skills are a key component of a role, an interview might not even be necessary.
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.
