A senior industrial officer is accusing a Victorian HSU branch's secretary of s-xually harassing her, in a case listed in the FWC on Monday, but the leader strenuously denies the allegations and the union's management committee says it could not substantiate most of the claims.
A law firm has won court backing to have a psychiatrist assess whether its client is legally fit to pursue her attempt to overturn the rejection of her race and s-x discrimination case, held up by a judge as demonstrating "the perils of litigating hurt feelings".
The FWC has ordered reinstatement for a professor who sent "intimate and romantic" messages to a student, including a photo of himself in his boxers, finding that his seven-year unblemished record since his recently-uncovered relationship mitigated his behaviour.
A former ATO director who claims sustained bullying and harassment forced her to move to the AEC has failed to establish it constitutes a dismissal, after she used the Public Service Act's voluntary transfer provisions.
The ABC must pay $70,000 compensation for non-economic loss to presenter Antoinette Lattouf for terminating her employment for reasons including that she held a political opinion opposing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, after a Federal Court ruling this morning.
A chief financial officer who made exaggerated claims to "shoehorn" them into adverse action provisions has failed to establish that his complaints about homophobic jibes and supposedly illegal accounting practices led to his unlawful sacking.
After rebuffing a recusal bid, the FWC has dismissed a worker's anti-bullying claim against his migration agent, who has made it very clear she wants nothing more to do with him.
The FWC has backed the sacking of a worker who shoved and swore at a woman as they rode an elevator towards his office, rejecting his claims of self-defence and that the employer's code of conduct did not apply because his shift had not started.
A FWC member has refused to recuse herself, after a worker likened her advice to an alleged bully during a conference to helping a s-xual assault perpetrator escape justice.
A judge has binned the $7.5 million lawsuit of an academic claiming his "oppressor characteristics" made him a victim of a university's diversity policies, observing that while he might have "a very legitimate gripe", industrial laws are not the platform to advance his crusade against "woke ideology".
