An employer that stopped rostering a casual worker after she lodged a stop-bullying application effectively sacked her, according to the Fair Work Commission, meaning it now has to face her general protections claim.
Workplace psychosocial hazards continue to dominate HR priorities, and with good reason. Regulators are cracking down on compliance, and employees have multiple avenues for making complaints and raising issues. Watch this HR Daily Premium webcast to understand the regulatory landscape and key risk areas.
An employee who "hijacked" a meeting and then resigned in the heat of the moment has lost his unfair dismissal claim, after the Fair Work Commission accepted he engaged in serious misconduct that warranted termination.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the HR jobs market, as organisations seek HR practitioners who can "bridge the gap" between people and technology, specialist recruiters say. Also in this article: the HR skills and roles in greatest demand across Australia, and how salaries are moving.
Many organisations could tighten up their processes for recruiting and managing employees who work with vulnerable people, but according to a compliance expert, there's also a major opportunity to overhaul accreditation and background-checking at a national level.
After being on restricted duties for nearly seven years, an employee who claimed she might be fit to perform her pre-injury role "at some time in the future" has lost her unfair dismissal claim.
The ANZ operation of a global organisation continues to slash the time employees spend on strategically unimportant work through a simplification project, but its HR director notes that every time an inefficiency is addressed, "something else rises to the top".
The operational variations between 10 employers weren't "significantly" different enough to warrant blocking a supported bargaining authorisation, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled.
A full bench of the Fair Work Commission has issued an order roping 19 employers in to supported bargaining, in the first such authorisation to be made outside of a government-funded sector.
Online reviews about employers can "significantly" impact the opinions of thousands of current and potential employees, and how organisations respond can turn "threat management" into an employer branding strategy, new research shows.
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.
