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A major bank has simplified its HR services to remove pain points and enhance the employee experience, a people leader says.

Having a psychologically safe workplace has never been more important, and with mental health injuries on the rise, employers are being urged to take their resilience strategies to the next level.

Rising workplace psychological injury rates are proof that despite increased awareness of mental health risks, employers are still "missing the mark" when it comes to prevention and management efforts, an organisational psychologist says.

An employee should have been given a "reality check" about his poor performance before he was dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in awarding him compensation.

Four-day weeks have "gathered a lot of steam" during the pandemic, but not all organisations are setting themselves up for long-term success. In this Q&A, an expert discusses various approaches and the factors that hinder or enable them.

It was reasonable to direct an employee to attend an independent medical examination due to suspicions her unsatisfactory performance was caused by an ongoing medical condition, a commission has ruled.

An employer did "everything humanly possible" to obtain an employee's vaccination status and was entitled to dismiss her after she repeatedly rebuffed its requests, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Communication and a clear strategy for inboarding can help smooth out obstacles when employees are internally promoted to leadership positions, a transitions specialist says.

Some common scenarios suggest employers are mishandling their internal promotions and failing to pay enough attention to 'inboarding', increasing new leaders' risks of underperformance and attrition.

An employer considered numerous complaints before finding a manager was "troublesome, dominating, difficult and possibly demanding", but its dismissal process was "egregious and flawed", the Fair Work Commission has ruled.