The morning after the night before, when alcohol is involved, can be painful for many reasons. In a recent case, the pain was felt by an insurance company, which was held to have acted wrongly when it summarily dismissed a senior employee for turning up to a work conference intoxicated.

How do you make a workplace drug testing policy work when an employee’s positive test for marijuana may be a direct (and lawful) result of treatment for the employee’s disability?

Summarises Peter Wilson's Laffer Lecture from the perspective of engagement in industrial relations regulation.

The days are getting longer. The smell of summer is in the air. The conquest of shopping centre Muzak systems by Christmas carols is (for the next little while, at least) total and complete. Yes, Christmas is coming – but before the season of peace and goodwill to all, first must come the work Christmas […]

When it comes to my favourite things, I never really could get into raindrops on roses, or whiskers on kittens. Fiduciary duties and chicken schnitzels, however, are pretty high on my list. So you can imagine my delight when I saw that these two of my favourite things had been brought together in a recent […]

What can the employer do if a CV fiction only comes to light after the employment has commenced?

Will changes to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 impact for HR professionals?