Property advisory business Savills has failed to persuade the Federal Court to throw out all of a senior employee's claims of discrimination, victimisation and "extreme and repetitive" s-xual harassment by a managing director.
A workplace racial vilification complaint has failed because it did not meet the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act's requirement that it involve a "public act", in a ruling that also found the self-represented employee a dishonest witness because of his reliance on artificial intelligence to prepare and run his case.
A judge's associate has won her bid to have her 10-years-late s-xual harassment and discrimination complaint against her former boss heard, after the Federal Court found she would have believed she would have no chance of his being held accountable before the High Court issued the Dyson Heydon apology.
A federal authority's concerns that a dispute resolution specialist will miss out on face-to-face connections by working from home 100% of the time while looking after his child are among reasonable business grounds for refusing his request, the FWC has held.
A consulate must compensate a driver whose contract demanded he retire at 65, with a senior FWC member finding no reason why India's government cannot revise its "discriminatory" compulsory retirement policy for Australian-based employees.
The first test case for the delegates' rights provisions legislated by the Albanese Government is set to be heard in the Federal Court in Brisbane next week.
A sacked teacher has failed to revive his anti-bullying application despite claiming a female colleague s-xually harassed him when she called him "Mr Baldy".
The FWC has rejected a manager's general protections dismissal dispute claim after finding that she waited too long to withdraw a resignation supposedly given "in a state of distress" and holding that the employer's knowledge of her tendency "to make 'emotional' decisions" had no relevance.
A 20-seconds late FWC lodgement has been fatal for a worker who claimed her employer discriminated against her when it dismissed her for refusing to undergo an independent medical examination after she disclosed her neurodiversity.
A judge has rejected a supervisor's claims that managers and colleagues subjected her to years of s-xual harassment and discrimination based on her race, s-x and multiple pregnancies, placing significant weight on her failure to raise complaints with HR.
