The extent to which individuals, including HR professionals, may be found personally liable for workplace breaches continues to expand and change under Australian law. In this webcast a workplace lawyer discusses individual liability issues, including accessorial liability under the Fair Work Act; personal liability under anti-discrimination and adverse action provisions; and much more.
Effectively managing the five 'Rs' of change can help maintain employees' productivity and performance, and an organisation's profitability, during workplace restructures, HR Daily Community member Mark Brand says. He discusses what these components are and how employers can deal with them in this week's featured post.
A recent high-profile MP resignation has put candidate fraud back in the spotlight, and a lawyer suggests employers are overlooking some simple ways to protect against it.
An employee has failed to argue that a "casual" conversation about transfers meant she was pressured to resign, among recent FWC rulings. In other news, the Commission has ordered a seven per cent increase to workers denied a pay rise for five years; workplace wellbeing programs might be failing men; and more.
An employee made false bullying allegations to deflect attention from her own behaviour, and was the "foolish and misguided choreographer of [her] own downfall", the Fair Work Commission has found in ruling her dismissal was fair.
In this HR Daily Premium webinar, a leadership expert will cover how HR professionals can build their influence with senior stakeholders, create an appetite for change programs, foster workplace collaboration and innovation, and more. Premium members should click through to request a complimentary pass. Upgrade here for access if you're not already a Premium member.
Most leaders today are too focused on quick, efficient fixes and need to trust their own judgement rather than technology if they want to see progress and growth, according to a prominent thought leader.
Any HR team undergoing a digital transformation must allocate significant effort to building new data "habits", or risk undermining the entire project, according to MLC Life Insurance's head of organisational development.
Organisations put significantly less effort into pleasing their employees compared to their customers, but applying similar principles across both groups creates a "huge" opportunity to better recruit, engage and retain staff, a leadership expert says.
The Fair Work Commission has accepted an employee told his manager to "f-ck off" without any reasonable justification, but found the "indecent haste" of his dismissal rendered it unfair.
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.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
