Women have borne a disproportionate amount of the burden during COVID, new research shows, highlighting five key strategies for HR/employers. Also in this article, how dads and partners taking parental leave improves mothers' mental health.
Offering flexibility is now a "make or break" factor for recruiting and retaining employees, as hybrid working becomes not just preferred, but expected. Also in this article, an employer steps up its "work anywhere" policy; and more.
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Remote working can be "fraught with danger" in terms of physical and psychological risks, according to HR Daily Community member Catherine Gillespie.
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An employer has lost its objection to compensating an employee whose blood pressure spiked in response to escalating workplace stress, causing a serious heart injury.
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After letting go half of its workforce last year, Flight Centre has attained record-high engagement levels and is now implementing a 're-retention strategy'.
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Employers are "mourning" the IR omnibus Bill's ill-fated enterprise bargaining changes, but there are plenty of other developments in this space to watch and prepare for, an employment lawyer says.
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The Fair Work Commission has found an employee would have accepted a demotion and pay cut rather than "face the unemployment queue" during COVID-19, in awarding him maximum compensation for unfair dismissal.
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There's a difference between deliberate deceit and misleading statements, the Fair Work Commission has stressed, in finding that summary dismissal was a disproportionate response to an employee's misconduct.
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Remote working can be "fraught with danger" in terms of physical and psychological risks, according to HR Daily Community member Catherine Gillespie.
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An employer has successfully objected to facing an adverse action claim from a casual worker, on the basis that it didn't terminate his employment.
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An employee who was told his position was being made redundant "almost immediately" after returning to work from a long absence is entitled to compensation for a psychological injury, a commission has ruled.
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