Employers are getting "very creative and competitive" to attract talent, but overpromising and underdelivering on the employee experience is set to cause serious retention issues, an HR expert warns.
An employer did not have to grant an employee's flexible work request but has been encouraged to explore reasonable adjustments, to address his concerns about catching COVID at work and potentially impacting his wife's IVF treatment.
Employees have increasingly optimistic expectations for remote and flexible work, so it's critical to understand what makes – and breaks – hybrid work success, a lawyer stresses.
An organisation's ability to manage a cyber event hinges on its people function, but HR's preparedness and responses can be "hit and miss", an expert says.
Recent hires are feeling unprepared to fulfill their roles, and it's leading to tension with the existing workforce as their colleagues think they're overpaid, according to new research.
An organisation has won a brief injunction restraining a former employee from using its confidential information, after the Federal Court accepted there was a "real risk" of a contract breach, and that damages wouldn't be an adequate remedy.
Speak-up cultures are becoming more common, but they're not enough to tackle the rise in bullying and harassment cases, according to a workplace culture consultant.
A commissioner has chastised a manager for his abusive outbursts at work and for failing to exercise "extreme caution" when sending sexually graphic messages from company-linked social media accounts.
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