Browsing: Safety & liability

Storing out-of-date candidate data creates significant security risks for recruiters under Australian privacy law, warns a senior management consultant. read more

• Ex-SKILLED employee a victim of "extraordinary circumstances"
  
• Active jobseekers most likely to get hired
  
• Queensland to introduce payroll tax rebate for apprentices
  
• ACCI launches hiring service
  
• June drop in NZ skilled job vacancies read more

• Recruiters urged to consider strengths-based hiring
  
• Failure to track temps, contractors exposing employers to risks
  
• Delaying super access would increase workforce participation read more

• Double-digit Asia-Pac gross profit increase for Robert Walters
  
• Quality-of-hire measurement should start pre-placement
  
• Set parameters to mitigate cloud storage risks
  
• The Search Party moves into employer reviews read more

An on-hire worker has failed in an attempt to claim unfair dismissal, despite the Fair Work Commission finding he had an "arguable case" against his employer, IPA Personnel. read more

• Executive search firm winding down following funding trouble
  
• Training provider receives permission for Indigenous-only recruitment
  
• Baiada 'shirking' responsibility to protect on-hire workers: RCSA
  
• Employers go cold on third-party recruitment read more

Documenting and enforcing business processes is becoming more important than ever in light of changing role structures in recruitment companies, advises a specialist auditor. read more

• Korn Ferry revenue surpasses $1b
  
• Court finds recruitment process not "unfair or unreasonable"
  
• IT recruiter aims to reduce job ad spend with new website
  
• Public sector salaries stagnate following low mobility read more

• On-hire company liable for injury compensation despite "ingenious" argument
  
• Recruiters can't keep heads in the sand about data
  
• Shift to digital strengthens Sydney ICT jobs market
  
• Gender equality job board goes live
  
• Women at heart of CareerOne careers fair read more

An employment services provider did not bully a consultant by taking a more active approach to her performance management, the Fair Work Commission has ruled. read more