A discrimination case involving the Queensland Office of IR underlines the challenges employers face when managing employees diagnosed with severe psychiatric disorders, amid questions over whether they can safely return to work.
The NTEU says a neurodiversity clause in a medical research institute's proposed agreement represents a "cultural shift" in how workplaces provide support, committing to a proactive, low-burden approach that will not necessarily require employees to obtain an official diagnosis.
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.
The FWC has ordered a university to allow an advisor to work from home one day a week, despite finding it had reasonable business grounds to reject the two-days-a-week WFH flexibility request she made on the basis of her age.
A tribunal is poised to order a council to pay more than $900,000 to a worker it discriminated against by sacking him over his inability to drive an allocated vehicle, in a decision panning a "chilling" suggestion that show cause letters formed part of consultations to identify reasonable adjustments.
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.
The FWC has backed Amazon's sacking of an injured worker who refused to have an independent medical examination, while another employer's income protection policy has weighed in favour of finding it not unfair to dismiss an incapacitated diesel fitter.
Employers should be required to consider compensating or giving additional leave to workers who are unable to work from home, to offset savings remote workers make on commuting costs, a police union has told the inquiry into the Greens' WFH Bill.
A type-1 diabetic's late general protections application alleging disability discrimination can proceed after his ASX-listed labour hire employer conceded the employment relationship had "dwindled and ceased" due to his work restrictions.
The Queensland IRC has rejected a claim that the State health deparment's promotion and interview process indirectly discriminated against neurodivergent people because of systemic barriers that prevented them fully participating, but has suggested it provide further training for selection panels.
