Further changes to the Fair Work Act are now in effect, following the Closing Loopholes Bill's passage late last year. Watch this short Q&A to ensure your organisation complies with its new obligations.
An HR advisor removed an employee from a casual pool because she repeatedly failed to indicate her work availabilities, and not because of her complaints and protected attributes, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
Completely switching off over the holidays is not laziness; rather it's critical to high performance, and organisations need systems in place to ensure it happens, says a leadership expert.
Apps utilising deepfake technology can be used for harmless fun, but they can also create content that might damage an organisation's reputation, or humiliate an employee, a lawyer says.
An employee has won compensation for a psychological injury after a commission accepted she had been treated with hostility by workplace "factions" and criticised in "reply all" emails.
Workplace researchers are predicting a gradual, steady increase in employers adopting the four-day work week over the next few years, outlining some common implementation obstacles in a new report.
Since applying simplification principles to a time-intensive annual process, the "panic" it once provoked has eased, and employees report feeling "lighter", an HR leader says.
Five employees have failed to prove that their manager bullied them, with the Fair Work Commission commenting it is "appropriate to make allowances for some degree of exasperation or tension" in workplace interactions.
A company could potentially have avoided litigation if it had responded to a warning that its new employee was breaching his confidentiality and non-compete obligations to his former employer, a court has found.
What constitutes "best practice" when managing neurodiversity at work is evolving all the time. Watch this HR Daily Premium webcast to learn how to embed neuroinclusive practices into HR programs and every stage of the employment lifecycle.
