Neurodivergent employees face a higher risk of burnout in today's workplaces, but their experience is often a "red flag" for the broader workforce's wellbeing, a mental health specialist says.
An employee who "relentlessly pursued" a subordinate despite her repeated rejections has lost his unfair dismissal claim, with the Fair Work Commission finding his behaviour amounted to serious misconduct.
An employer statement provides valuable context for an organisation's gender pay gap, but it also helps to "build a great narrative" around gender equality efforts, according to a leader at the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
An employee sacked for making a highly offensive comment about a coworker has lost her unfair dismissal claim, despite arguing she was "simply discussing work colleagues in the company of friends".
The seven-figure damages award arising from a mishandled termination process serves as an extra reminder for employers to consider the interplay between employment contracts and company policies and procedures, a workplace lawyer says.
Rejecting an employee's flexible work request based on a perception that he would be distracted by his child and not responsive enough to customers was not reasonable, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee who was involved in multiple incidents, included two vehicle crashes and a D&A policy breach, was fairly dismissed despite his employer's lack of adherence to its own policy, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A new era in corporate leadership is no longer a nice-to-have, but critical for the survival of business, according to a specialist in transformational leadership theory.
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