No evidence of "witch hunt"; Missing dismissal letter explained late application; 336 days an insurmountable barrier; No joy for sacked DUI worker on sub mission; and Poor mental health did not cover whole delay.
The High Court's refusal to hear an appeal against the Giggle for Girls v Tickle ruling means employers cannot exclude transgender women when they seek to hire women to address historic under-representation in the workforce, a human rights law expert says.
The Federal Court has declined to temporarily restrain Atlassian from managing a neurodivergent worker's performance or sacking him, after finding no "real threat" of imminent termination of his employment.
The working from home term in the clerical award will take effect next Monday, after a FWC full bench today confirmed its August ruling, with minor amendments to phrasing of the proposed new rights.
The FWC has ruled that while a BHP subsidiary "imposed unreasonable deadlines" for a worker with bipolar to respond to and provide medical reports, it was entitled to dismiss him for incapacity after he refused to attend a "tie-breaker" medical exam to resolve conflicting assessments of his fitness for work.
A probationary aged care nurse has won an adverse action case after a people and culture executive sacked her without independently assessing allegations, relying instead on a manager's recommendation that had been influence by her complaints.
An employer's clumsy and disorganised management practices rather than discrimination led to it giving a female employee just a few hours' notice before a job interview while her male colleagues had days to prepare, and it compounded its poor practice by then forgetting to tell her she failed to win the role, a tribunal has found.
The FWC has dismissed s-xual harassment claims against two employees of an IR advisory service but allowed those against a director to continue, in the first decision to consider its new discretion to throw out allegations filed outside a two-year window.
The Federal Court has granted Services Australia leave to appeal a finding that it took adverse action against a worker based on his race or s-xuality when it sacked him for punching a colleague in the head.
The FWC has allowed a six-day-late disability discrimination case to proceed after accepting that the paid agent engaged to file the application entered the wrong name and employer.
