Two employees have failed to win an injunction blocking their employer from dismissing them for misconduct, arguing they were targeted after campaigning for a new enterprise agreement.
An employer should have given a worker more than 24 hours to recover from her "heightened emotional state" after a threatening incident at work, rather than accepting her on-the-spot resignation, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A new migration strategy will streamline the much-criticised labour market testing regime and create a new three-tiered temporary skills pathway, the Federal Government has announced.
Talent management leaders are under such pressure to deliver solutions quickly that many aren't properly identifying problems first, but there is a way to conduct root cause diagnosis quickly and simply, an expert says.
A probationary employee who attended only one-third of her scheduled work days, and was late on most of those occasions, has failed to prove her dismissal was actually motivated by her bullying complaint.
Congruency between expectations and experience, throughout the entire employee lifecycle, is the most critical factor in whether an EVP will be considered "successful". Meanwhile "some disconnects exist" between what employees now desire in a physical workplace and what employers are providing.
A worker has lost her stop-bullying claim after making "unpalatable" accusations that she was targeted due to her Chinese heritage, with the Fair Work Commission finding no evidence of repeated unreasonable behaviour towards her.
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