"Coworker quality" has recently become a much more important driver for employees making decisions about leaving and joining organisations, new research shows.
An employer has been sentenced and fined nearly $380k after it failed to address workplace psychosocial health risks. Meanwhile employees' perceptions of organisational culture have reached a low point.
An employer has convinced a commission there are "no reasonable means by which it can create a role that a man can perform", and has been granted an exemption from discrimination laws.
A team leader who choked a colleague and threatened to kill another after they "provoked" him was fairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, rejecting that his actions were a "fight or flight" response and therefore justified.
Despite enormous attention being paid to managing emergent psychosocial risks, many employers' strategies are now stalling or even backfiring. Watch this webcast to understand how to boost wellness and performance, build cognitive fitness, and beat burnout.
An employer was entitled to dismiss an employee who committed safety breaches to provoke a reaction from colleagues and then threw an "adult tantrum" when they called him out on it, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Paid parental leave will incrementally increase to 26 weeks over the next three years, as part of the Federal Government's 'More Support for Working Families' Bill.
A tribunal has criticised Australia Post for its "witch hunt" of an impressionable worker, whose psychological injury stemmed from bored colleagues making jokes at her expense.
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