It wasn't reasonable for an employer to enforce "strict compliance" with its policies in requiring a managing director to disclose his relationship with a subordinate, a tribunal has ruled.
Employers are relying too heavily on employee assistance programs to "fix" psychosocial risks rather than targeting the causes, a health and safety expert says.
An unprecedented misalignment between economic and labour trends is causing a "fragmented market" where more employees are intending to leave, at the same time as more intend to stay, Gartner research shows.
Expectations regarding employees' personal appearance at work have softened significantly over the past few years, and organisations that try to impose strict standards will feel their backlash, a lawyer says.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has dismissed a stop s-xual harassment appeal, finding a disgruntled worker was seeking to agitate historical grievances.
An employee has won the right to appeal the rejection of his unfair dismissal claim, after an informal discussion escalated into a termination meeting.
An employee's out-of-hours misconduct wasn't a "trivial instance of drunken frivolity", but rather a serious event that could have damaged an employer's reputation, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in upholding his dismissal.
Part-time work can offer employees stronger work/life balance, but too many organisations still see it as an "inconvenient" perk, a flexible work specialist says.
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.
