When a team is led by people with a high need for power or status, employees are more inclined to suppress their own "creative sparks", according to HR Daily Community member Ian Plowman. In this week's featured post, he explains how suspending hierarchies can help organisations innovate.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld an employee's unfair dismissal claim, finding the employer failed to inform him of allegations prior to an investigation meeting, and chose its own support person for him.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected an unfair dismissal claim from an employee sacked for assaulting his partner while intoxicated. Also in this article, recent termination rulings; Employsure loses a legal dispute with a client; and much more.
A company that denied employment to a candidate based on his "very serious" criminal conviction has refused to comply with a recommendation to compensate him.
HR professionals are experiencing more instances of being named as individual respondents to workplace claims, and case law suggests courts are increasingly willing to hold them personally liable.
Demand is high for HR business partners, generalists and industrial relations experts on the east coast, and organisations across the country are seeking professionals with change management skills, specialists say in our quarterly HR snapshot.
For its new state-of-the-art site, Dulux has opted to test job applicants before screening resumes, and proactively model the workplace culture on its most-engaged businesses.
Team meetings fall into four distinct categories, and when these are clear to everyone it's much easier to stop them becoming time-wasting talkfests, according to a leadership author.
Adverse action claims continue to evolve, with new lessons and implications for HR professionals. In this webcast, a workplace lawyer outlines key adverse action rulings and developments and what they mean for employers' risk-mitigation strategies.
To survive in the future of work leaders must create more value in their personal and professional brand, according to HR Daily Community member Mark Hodgson. This means developing and upgrading five key areas.
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.
