Australia: Performance management in the APS

Key Points:

The starting point for APS performance management is clear, transparent and easy to use policies.

On 1 July 2015, new performance management directions come into force that mean APS employees must take greater responsibility for their own performance. APS agencies also need to ensure that their policies and practices focus on addressing unsatisfactory performance and recognising high achievers.

The focus of the new directions is to ensure that all APS employees are performing effectively, as […]

By | May 3rd, 2015 ||

Canada: A Primer On Human Rights Responses: Information You Hope You’ll Never Need

A number of our Firm’s recent blogs have painted a picture of what consequences arise when an employer is found to have violated the Human Rights Code with respect to its employees. Hopefully by now you have a better understanding of how to ensure your company and its employees do not engage in discriminatory conduct in the workplace, but you might not know what to do if you are named in an Application […]

By | May 1st, 2015 ||

European Union: European Court Clarifies When Collective Redundancy Consultation Obligations Apply

The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) has today given its decision in the case of USDAW and others – v – Ethel Austin and others, otherwise known as the Woolworths case. The CJEU has decided that, in determining whether collective redundancy consultation obligations are triggered, an employer need only consider proposed redundancies in each of its ‘establishments’ separately, and not all proposed redundancies in aggregate across all sites.

Background

UK law requires that, […]

By | May 1st, 2015 ||