There's no escaping stress completely, but employees can choose between controlling it or letting it control them, according to a wellness specialist who says even sixty seconds can be long enough to "reset".
Undertaking "preparatory steps" to establish a competing business while still employed will rarely be considered a breach of fiduciary and contractual obligations, a full bench of the Fair Work Commission has highlighted, in refusing an employer's unfair dismissal appeal.
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The Fair Work Commission is allowing a late general protections claim to proceed, after an employer advertised a "similar" job to one it made redundant, just one day after the three-week time limit expired.
An employer's deficient policies and procedures for managing s-xual harassment risks indicated a "complete disregard" for its employees, a court has ruled in issuing a $40k fine.
Working through a Reconciliation Action Plan has the end result of improving all workplace policies and procedures, according to a chief people and culture officer whose organisation recently completed the 'Innovate' tier.
When a senior leader at the ABC sacked an employee who expressed a political view on social media, he disregarded warnings that it "would be worth looping in P&C" to ensure the employer's established disciplinary process was followed, the Federal Court has noted in ordering pecuniary penalties.
A senior HR business partner, whose unfair dismissal claim was undermined by his "patently false", "unsubstantiated" and at times "misogynistic" claims, has been denied leave to appeal by a full bench of the Fair Work Commission.
An employee's decision to disclose a mental health condition is often a "spur-of-the-moment" one, and four structural elements of workplace environments either facilitate or constrain disclosures, new research has found.
An employee had no choice but to resign after she complained about s-xual harassment and then wasn't properly informed of the investigation's outcome, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Some employers have successfully stepped up to the task of managing psychosocial safety, but in many other workplaces, initiatives are falling flat. Join us for an HR Daily webinar to understand what's holding back progress in this critical space and how to move forward.
