An HR business partner, who was chosen for redundancy because she was "a little bit emotional when dealing with conflict" and not confident in her English-speaking skills, has lost her unfair dismissal claim.
It's not new to say middle managers are experiencing high rates of burnout, but employers are failing to implement some of the most simple, effective prevention and mitigation strategies, an expert says.
A Fair Work Commissioner's tolerance for a sacked employee "evaporated" when she failed to meet relevant case deadlines, and he said her lack of attention to detail supported her employer's many dismissal reasons.
HR professionals with industrial relations experience are highly sought after at the moment for both permanent and contract roles, to manage the workplace complexities arising from recent legislative changes, according to specialist recruiters.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld the principle of "management prerogative" in finding that it was reasonable for an employer to reject an internal applicant for a role.
An employer's failure to intervene with mediation in a workplace conflict that culminated in an employee's sacking didn't make his dismissal unfair, a commission has found.
New research shows employers can't overlook the need for great benefits in their talent strategies, but the good news is that the most-valued offerings don't need to be costly.
A workplace advisory service, which has been criticised by the Fair Work Commission on more than 30 occasions, has been refused permission to represent employees in 46 new applications due to concerns about its "misleading" practices.
An HR general manager thought it would be "insulting" to offer a retrenched employee "lesser" roles due to his skills and experience, but failing to at least have this conversation made his dismissal unfair, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Conversations about employee misbehaviour and misconduct are typically not handled well, or avoided altogether, because they're "hard", but this only causes issues to escalate, a communications expert warns.
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