Joe Catanzariti revisits the legal state of play on "flexible workplace arrangements" in Australia in light of the latest report from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity on the relationship between combining paid work and family commitments.
Lucienne Mummé looks at the proposed amendments to the South Australia Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (SA) and the recent amendments to the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 1995 (Vic) and considers what implications this will have for employers.
Employers faced with conducting investigations into workplace misconduct often grapple with giving the alleged perpetrator enough detail while also protecting the privacy of those who report the alleged misconduct or otherwise cooperate with an investigation, as Glen Bartlett explains.
While ordinarily employers consider any potential industrial considerations when changing their employees' work hours, recent cases in the anti-discrimination jurisdiction highlight the importance of also asking if changes might give rise to discrimination issues, as Bruce Heddle explains.
