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While women are fighting for equality in the workplace and are taking on executive positions in the corporate world, there is a downside to their professional success and it comes in the form of serious health problems, once typically associated with men.

After surviving the Global Financial Crisis, the vast majority of employees in Australia are looking to restore balance to their working lives after putting in the hard yards during leaner economic times.

With the Queensland floods finally retreating and normal business resuming, Australian employers are urged to learn from the Queensland experience and carefully consider their legal obligations towards staff affected by unexpected disasters or events.

Julia Ross, the founder, Managing Director and Deputy Chairman of Ross Human Directions, has today tendered her resignation with the company consistent with the terms of the Takeover Bid Implementation Agreement with Chandler Macleod.

There are five main pitfalls to how businesses manage their people, and these errors cost Australian business owners millions of dollars and a huge amount of wasted time each year.

Companies who do the right thing and address staff unhappiness with management will reap the rewards.

Australia’s unemployment rate has dropped 0.2 percentage points to 5.0 percent in December, putting pressure on businesses to pay higher wages to retain or recruit employees, as announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today.

Not only have the Queensland floods devastated whole communities with water damage and loss of life, but predictions are that affected communities will be hit by an increase in unemployment followed by skills shortage as people rebuild forcing hundreds of small businesses to close.

Given the growing severity of the floods across the south-east in particular, employers must be quick to consider plans for employee safety and their business recovery, according to Paula Maidens, Managing Director of Recruitment Coach, a people management coaching and consulting firm for small-medium businesses.

MyCareer has launched a LinedIn app that allows MyCareer users to scrape their existing LinkedIn profile data and match it to potential job opportunities on MyCareer.

Australian small businesses are being blindsided by important changes to workplaces laws that took effect on January 1, according to an industry expert.

University graduates are lying on their resumes when applying for graduate jobs, with a survey of 2,500 Australian university graduates showing that 38 percent openly admit to lying on their resumes.

Brisbane based small business and digital agency Cru Digital is giving staff 10 hours a week ‘creative time’ to encourage creativity in the workplace.

With the end of the year approaching and many businesses finalising employee remuneration and bonus payouts, employers are urged to use this opportunity to update their employment contracts, particularly provisions applied to confidential information and restraints of trade, which may be either unsatisfactorily drafted, or out of date, according to Harmers Workplace Lawyers.

Employment figures are biting back in the lead up to the new year with employment rising to pre GFC levels, with part time employees set to save employers’ bacon in 2011.

While there is no handbook to ensure your workplace is in tip-top shape as you head into 2011, there is a set of rules to live by – the seven deadly sins, which can be used to guide acceptable organisational behaviour, and ensure your business is performing well in the new year.

Thirty-eight percent of employees have been less productive than normal in the lead-up to the Christmas break, 35% say they have been just as productive and 27% have been more productive, according to new research.

Freelancer.com has announced their findings on the fastest growing online outsourcing jobs in the third quarter of 2010 with the release of the Freelancer Fast 50.

Here are three tips professionals can act on over the Christmas holiday break to increase the number of people viewing their LinkedIn Profile:

More than half (52 percent) of employees surveyed say they would quit after a conflict with a manager, highlighting the need to ensure managers aren’t pushing good employees out of your business.