It’s that time of year again, and amongst all the end-of-year functions and holiday preparations, it is a good time to reflect on the lessons from 2023 for workplace investigations and look towards what may be on the horizon in 2024. Here are some trends our team has noticed over the last 12 months and […]
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Need to correct a toxic workplace culture? Or want to take the pulse of your workforce? Conducting a culture review is a vital first step. Reviews into workplace culture, parliamentary committees and industry or workplace specific examinations such as the Set the Standard Report and the WA Parliament’s inquiry into sexual harassment in the FIFO mining industry
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Workplace investigations are underpinned by the general legal principles that are owed by an employer to an employee, the most significant of which is ensuring procedural fairness. One of the elements of procedural fairness is the impartiality of the investigator. This article will discuss challenges faced by organisations and investigators when attempting to conduct an
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Respect@Work – National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces by the Australian Human Rights Commission. What was the inquiry about? In March 2020, following an 18-month inquiry, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins handed down the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report of the National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces, Respect@Work. The Commission was
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A medical student accused of serious sexual assault by a fellow student has successfully challenged an attempt by the Disciplinary Board of a university to hear and decide the allegations A final year medical student was notified by his university of allegations that he had sexually assaulted a fellow student during a clinical placement and
An employee who claims her complaints of inappropriate behavior in the workplace were never investigated has won her unfair dismissal claim, after the employer company failed to appear. A former employee of Billboard Media lodged an unfair dismissal claim with the Fair Work Commission (FWC). The threshold issue for determination by the FWC was whether
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