Employers' new obligations to proactively eliminate s-xual harassment and prevent psychosocial harm at work are set to have an impact on HR teams that shouldn't be underestimated, a workplace lawyer says.
The number of employees with attention deficit trait is rising exponentially, requiring HR professionals to be "radically retrained" to mitigate this, a leadership advisor says.
An employee who repeatedly provided "unacceptable" medical certificates to cover his absence effectively abandoned his employment, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Separating employees who are friends so they don't distract one another, expecting people to disregard hunger outside meal breaks, and generally pretending people are "machines", are just some of the ways employers trying to "fix" so-called problems are making them worse.
Role rotation and tenure limits can reduce the risk of executive teams "stagnating and becoming irrelevant", and pave the way for internal successors, leadership specialists say.
An employer's dysfunction enabled an "extremely flawed" dismissal of an employee, one week after it promoted her, and it then displayed a "lack of professionalism" during unfair dismissal proceedings, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Nearly two-thirds of Australian business leaders are expecting a rise in employee activism, with pay inequalities and the cost of living predicted as the main drivers for negotiations, according to new research.
Employees who experience domestic and family violence are "drowning in the workplace", with a lack of support often leading them to lose their job on performance grounds, a social impact expert says.
Australia is performing below global norms for employee experience, with new-hire intent to stay suggesting attention to onboarding hasn't matched employers' focus on talent attraction, an expert says.
Australian businesses are in "a really risky situation at the moment", with new research showing the leading indicators of employee experience are stagnating or declining.
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