The HR employment market has continued to decline this year, but at a slower rate. This article also contains news in brief on underpayments, hiring intentions, gender equality, workplace neurodiversity and more.
An employer had a valid reason to dismiss an employee who breached its code of conduct, and its decision was fair regardless of whether she'd been specifically trained in the circumstances that led to her actions, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Regularly pressuring an employee to work overtime posed a "real risk" to his health and safety, and was just one example of the repeated unreasonable conduct that forced him to resign, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
No matter how smart they are, people and culture leaders will be judged by HR's systems, because it's those, not the people, that the majority of staff interact with, a CPO warns.
Transforming an outdated HR system so it's fit for purpose doesn't have to be expensive or time-intensive, but it does require realistic expectations, according to a CPO.
A young white employee "imputed with conservative political beliefs" has had his general protections bid thrown out, after a court found his claim was largely a "crusade" against diversity and inclusion.
Too many employers are still trying to structure flexibility and remote work around their existing team organisation and leadership practices, when it should be the other way around, according to an advisor with 20 years' experience in the field.
A conversation about a person's mental health isn't "an HR thing", it's "a management thing", and one way to ensure those conversations build trust is by taking a gender-sensitive approach, a men's health specialist says.
A manager's "dramatic" shift from supporting an employee to sacking her for serious misconduct was driven by "vindictive personal reasons", the Fair Work Commission has found, in awarding her $56k in compensation.
Accidental underpayments don't constitute the criminal offence of wage theft, but establishing whether a breach was deliberate or accidental is not always straightforward, a lawyer warns.
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.
