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A few years ago a Brisbane service business acquired a similar sized business on the Gold Coast with 45 employees. When I started working with

A friend, Lucy, was the human resources manager reporting to the CEO when she fell pregnant with her first child. In the last trimester of

Last week I had lunch with a friend who runs a small financial planning business. He was in a bad way. Business debt, employee turnover,

What should you do about the high-performing employee who continuously fails to live up to the organisation’s behavioural standards and company values? How you answer

The best way to lessen the risk of an unfair dismissal claim or have a solid defence to a claim are to have valid reasons

The greatest risk for employers in having to terminate someone’s employment is the employee disputing the termination through one of four methods of claim: Unfair

The most common problem business leaders have when attempting to implement major change across an organisation is that employees are five steps behind them. We’ve

Do you discriminate (intentionally or not) against older people when recruiting and promoting? Research by the Human Rights Commission shows that age discrimination is ongoing

It might come as a surprise to some, but the most likely time for employee dissatisfaction, low productivity, and turnover to occur is during the

The superficially charming, highly ambitious employee (often leader) who pretends to listen attentively while dogmatically doing it their way and treading on whoever to achieve