Category: Workforce Management

Women's touch revives business

Companies are adopting a woman’s touch to help them emerge from the man-made global financial crisis. As businesses...

Half a million compo after chair fall

By Pia Akerman. A business that provided an employee with a wheeled office chair on a tiled floor...

Employers pay more for staff as skills...

By Jennifer Foreshew Companies are offering perks to retain talent, headhunting overseas and poaching from other industries. Technology...

Loyal employees should be valued

By Miawling Lam Employees are no longer dispensable and should instead be treated as new customers. This bold...

Legal risk to employers who impose shorter...

Kate Southam, Editor of CareerOne.com.au Employers must consult staff before introducing major cost saving options such as a...

ACTU Congress to urge work law changes

By Ewan Hannan Unions will seek to have penalties for taking industrial action abolished, encourage the prosecution of...

Push for 26 week parental leave

By Ewin Hannan Unions will back a "work and family” test case seeking paid leave for pregnancy, childbirth,...

Phones run hot with work gripes

By Elizabeth Allen Unhappy workers and confused employers have flooded federal and state workplace ombudsmen with a record...

How to breathe life into worker effort

By Amanda Horswill Executive bonuses are out of fashion after scandalous payments to high-level execs running sickly companies...

Bullying claims can be fabricated gains

There may be a correlation between the increasing number of bullying claims and employees’ fears for their jobs...