The extent to which HR professionals, managers and company directors may be found personally liable for workplace breaches continues to expand and change under Australian law. In addition, individuals…
Digital policies and procedures.
The reality of the digital age is that Companies need to examine traditional HR functions. Risks and dangers, protecting the company from your employees and protecting employees from the company…
Procedural Fairness.
“A Company cannot simply produce policies and procedures and expect to rely on them to defend a claim if there is no evidence to support that it’s employees have…
Family and domestic violence unpaid-leave.
On March 26th, 2018, the Fair Work Commission Full Bench confirmed that all employees should have access to unpaid family and domestic violence leave. It will apply to all…
Sham Contracting and bad business models.
Too often the discovery of ‘sham contracting’ arrangements on construction sites and in the labour hire industry, shows us that even with these often ill-fated arrangements, no proper contracts are…
Collaboration and Co-operation versus conflict.
Charles Darwin stated, “In the long history of humankind those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” The modern workplace generally has policies and procedures aimed at…
How can you improve typecasting at work?
Every day in the workplace this issue arises. We have included a recent example in the blog below. The Myer stores incident is symptomatic of the attitude that prevails towards…
Listening versus Hearing.
“The attention of the listener serves as accompaniment in the music of speech.” Joseph Joubert In the workplace, the ability to listen as distinct from hearing is often confused. Much…
Cyber bullying and HR.
Cyber bullying is increasing in the workplace. While less common than the traditional forms of bullying, it is becoming more frequent and is likely to increase over the years as…
Customer satisfaction.
Many businesses are now facing the power of social media when disgruntled customers decide to use the medium to damage the brand. This trend is not necessarily vindictive but can…