The Australian Human Rights Commission has suggested it should be easier for employees to pursue workplace discrimination claims in court, in a major report on age and disability discrimination.
An employer that's "very serious" about letting each employee control when and how they do their job says staff at all levels should "expect a yes" when they make a flexible work request, according to its leadership director.
Employees are more likely to stay engaged at work if they have regular career conversations, but these talks rarely happen, says a report that highlights two vital roles HR professionals can play in ensuring they occur.
When teams are underperforming it's most often because they don't recognise the misalignment between what they intend to achieve and what they're actually doing, business anthropologists and academics have found.
Employers do not have to put up with a support person who is "overtly interventionist" during a disciplinary meeting, HR Daily Community member Shane Koelmeyer says in referring to a recent Fair Work Commission decision.
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Demand for soft skills in younger workers is dramatically increasing, but they are failing to keep up, a major report shows. Meanwhile, an inquiry has highlighted the cultural issues that can promote workplace bullying; technology is decreasing face-to-face interactions; the AFP says cybercriminals are targeting HR payroll systems; and more.
Discussions of a s-xual nature "have no place at work", the Fair Work Commission has ruled in finding an employee was fairly sacked for asking a colleague at work if she'd had an abortion.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
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