Browsing: Employment law

• Senior hire for Hudson Sydney
  
• Demand for skilled workers down in May
  
• Clarius reports profitable end to financial year
  
• Indeed acquires mobile tech company
  
• Myer debacle reinforces importance of background checks
  
• Student body aims to abolish three-hour shift minimum read more

• Employer faces legal claim after dismissing new recruit over fraud charges
  
• Lack of tech integration hindering people strategies
  
• Recruiters urged to shift into "the digital age"
  
• Australian Talent Unleashed winners unveiled read more

The impending removal of a commonly-used tax exemption for contractors in the ACT is creating a "business nightmare" for recruiters, and the changes might also affect the Territory's ability to attract talent, according to the Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association. read more

• Greythorn bolsters team with two hires
  
• Recruitment discrimination prevalent for international workers
  
• Professionals want better packages, broader remit: Morgan McKinley
  
• NZ skilled vacancies down
  
• New chair for SMS read more

Hire for who candidates can become, not who they are now: Cirque du Soleil.... Can agency recruiters "cross over"?.... Accountant fails to overturn dismissal for side-stepping hiring policy.... Board directors anticipate growth, hunt for sales skills.... Recruiters urged to discuss talent supply chain with clients.... OneShift and Aspect Personnel poll in Hot 30 list. read more

Job ads plummet in May.... Court finds recruitment ads promising qualifications were deceptive.... IT job demand set to explode.... Chefs, building and construction workers added to skilled migration list.... What makes a great sales manager? read more

A legal dispute between two television networks over a programming executive sends a warning to recruiters about the dangers of failing to check candidates' contractual obligations before making job offers, says an employment law specialist. read more

Adecco fined, but avoids $750k penalty over on-hire death.... Chandler Macleod CFO resigns.... Changes to recruiters' payroll tax obligations in ACT.... Plummer increases Clarius stake.... 'Grass is greener' Kiwis interviewing for new work.... Australia re-elected to ILO governing body. read more

Zappos dispels misconceptions about culling job postings.... Former Porterallen manager starts with Randstad.... Public sector unlikely to hit 2015 Indigenous recruitment targets.... Social media affecting job opportunities 'unfair'.... On-hire damages claim passes first hurdle.... Attitude shift will improve young Australians' work prospects.... Council recruitment and advertising services contract goes to tender. read more

A recruitment company has been awarded damages from its former state manager, who secretly performed work for two clients while employed by the business. read more