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An employee has won compensation for a psychological injury he suffered after a colleague, with whom he'd been embroiled in conflict for years, was promoted and threatened to "go after" him.

Employers that seek to voluntarily restructure their workforce to take advantage of artificial intelligence technologies will have a responsibility to support and upskill their current employees to prevent unnecessary redundancies, Labor is proposing in a draft policy.

The role of a manager has become "completely unmanageable", due to "an overflowing set of responsibilities and insufficient support from above", a Gartner director says.

An employer has defended sacking an absent employee after an independent medical assessment found "malignant resentment" prevented her from ever being fit to return.

Conflicts of interest aren't always problematic, but "hiding or failing to manage one is", according to a new report calling for better education and internal controls.

A casual employee has failed to prove a Centrelink notification was evidence she had been dismissed, with the Fair Work Commission finding her employer had temporarily removed her from its payroll system due to business conditions.

An employee's private chat about a colleague went beyond any "ordinary level of workplace gossip or venting", and was a "hateful" exchange that warranted her immediate dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

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.