Every HR professional should understand the key terms in employment contracts, when to review and vary them, and how contracts interact with legislation, industrial instruments and workplace policies. Watch this webcast to ensure you're across these areas.
It's always frustrating - after a time-consuming, expensive and emotional recruitment process - when a great candidate decides to reject your offer, HR Daily blogger Nicole Underwood says in this week's featured post.
Nobody believes organisations when they "blow their own trumpet", but if their corporate social responsibility programs are effective, others will do it for them, according to Carnival Australia CEO Ann Sherry.
A health initiative that won over workers with the slogan, "How to lose weight and drink beer", and brought management on board with stats that created "a sense of urgency", has helped a blue-collar workforce to reduce its absenteeism, presenteeism, and injury rates.
Employers that want to keep pace with the rest of the world must adapt their organisations to welcome employees from different cultural backgrounds, but too many expect immigrants and foreign workers to simply 'fit in', says growth strategist and culture specialist Pamela Young.
Good managers are born, not made, but when people without this ability are promoted into management roles they use manipulation and politics to get by, often with devastating effects on employee engagement, says the CEO of global research company Gallup Consulting.
Traumatic experiences such as workplace bullying not only affect the employees who are directly involved, but also those who support them, and "vicarious trauma" can have a serious impact on a worker's health and productivity, according to employment lawyer Josh Bornstein.
As the Fair Work Commission's anti-bullying regime starts to take shape, an industrial barrister has compiled a list of 13 issues employers should consider when preparing to defend a claim.
Many organisations still fail to distinguish between the roles they should develop from within ('make'), those they should acquire from the market ('buy'), and those they should outsource, according to HR Daily blogger and workforce strategy expert Colin Beames.
Confusion about how long an organisation should retain a sick or injured employee who's unable to work could be stopping many employers from lawfully terminating absent staff, according to lawyers from Hicksons' workplace relations group.
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.
