What Is Bullying?

What Is Bullying? WorkSafe defines bullying as “repeated and unreasonable behaviour directed towards a worker or a group of workers that creates a risk to health and safety”. Why is Bullying the employer’s business? Bullying is unacceptable on moral grounds and the employer should take immediate steps to deal with bullying in the workplace appropriately.…

What Is Enduring Powers of Attorney?

What Is Enduring Powers of Attorney? This comprehensive article aims to uncover key concepts and aims to provide answers to the most frequently asked questions about an Enduring Powers of Attorney. This very important concept is often misunderstood and even more frequently mishandled. Yet, this document alone may be the most important one when it…

What is Constructive Dismissal?

What is Constructive Dismissal? When an employee resigns because they believe the employer breached a term of their employment contract and the breach was of sufficient seriousness to force them to resign, they may have been Constructively Dismissed. The 3 main grounds for Constructive Dismissal happen when: 1.    The employer tells the employee – you…