Despite signs of a "permissive attitude" towards name-calling at work, an employer was entitled to reprimand an employee for racial stereotyping a colleague, a commission has found.
To ensure employees retain the critical thinking skills organisations need, it will be crucial to clarify the line between using AI as an assistant, and depending on it entirely, an expert says.
Former Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins says she is yet to come across a single organisation that is "implementing the positive duty in an entirely holistic and thorough manner", but meaningful change is nonetheless occurring "beneath the surface".
The "optics" would be poor if an employer retained a senior employee who was convicted of domestic violence, a commission has found in rejecting his unfair dismissal appeal.
More than half of Australia's caregiving population already feel forced to choose between caregiving and their career, and on a scale of one to 100, Australia's "caregiving readiness" is just 23.1, a new report warns.
It was reasonable not to allow an employee whose ego was "dazzled" by other job offers to rescind his resignation, the Fair Work Commission has found, rejecting that the employer's conduct constituted a dismissal.
It's important to prepare for difficult conversations, but when managers do so with the wrong mindset it undermines their results, a behavioural specialist says.
New research has identified the work factors most likely to lead to "quiet quitting", and calls for HR practitioners to view the phenomenon with less negativity.
Losing a job held for nearly 30 years was likely to have an "extremely significant effect" on an employee, but she was "given every opportunity to avoid that outcome", according to the Fair Work Commission.
