Posts tagged "firing"

A worker who was fired for alleged embezzlement has won an appeal and will receive $40,000 in compensation from her former employer.

A recent case has shown why employers must always exercise care when seeking to dismiss employees – even during their probation period.

New reports reveal that streaming giant Netflix has some very frank, and sometimes distressing, human resources policies.

The Court ordered a former employee to pay his employer’s legal costs of more $12,000, after finding the employee’s dismissal claim lacked reasonable cause.

Fitting a new team member into your existing work family is easier said than done. Balancing the priorities such as career goals, on the job…

It didn’t take long for Envato co-founders Collis and Cyan Ta’eed to realise they needed to fire their first employee. Here's what they learnt.

If you work at Netflix, there's one phrase that you're simply never allowed to say.

A recent SmartCompany poll indicated 67% of business owners admit they make mistakes when hiring, and this can be costly.

According to W…

Sometimes it just doesn’t work out and you have to let someone go. While you don’t want to rush these decisions you also cannot afford t…

The success of a startup boils down to its team and the people who work day-in, day-out to see it grow and Invoice2go’s head of culture and …

For the first time in history, there are five generations of Australians participating in the workforce at once, and while it’s widely ack…

Last month, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) handed down a decision criticising a manager for dismissing an employee by text message.

In th…