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 court has declined to hear discrimination cases brought by three health workers sacked mid-pandemic for refusing COVID-19 jabs, finding no merit in their arguments that being unvaccinated should be treated as a disability.
A court has rejected a probationary employee's claim that a public sector employer sacked her because she has a disability, took sick and carer's leave and lodged an anti-bullying claim, accepting that the employer simply decided she did not have the skills and aptitude to perform her job.
A employee paid $362,500 to settle a common law claim after her s-xual assault and r-pe at work has won the all-clear to continue a related s-xual harassment and discrimination claim under equal opportunity legislation.
Workers who have been s-xually harassed are waiting years for their complaints to be heard because of a surge in cases and a failure by the Federal Government to increase funding to enable the Australian Human Rights Commission to deal with them promptly, according to the ETU.
The FWC will early next year hear FAAA and TWU bids to boost flight attendants' pay up to 60% by overhauling the modern award, relying on gender-based undervaluation and changes to the nature of their work.
The Federal Government needs to tackle the 18% Indigenous pay gap using the same "deliberate and sustained" approach that it has taken with the gender pay gap, to prevent it from persisting "from generation to generation", a new report providing the "most complete picture" of the disparity has found.
The Federal Court has ordered a sacked senior HR manager to pay his former employer $45,000 in costs on a party-basis, after it rejected his AI-infected, meritless, "doomed to fail" bid for a judicial review of two FWC rulings.
The FWC has thrown out a worker's flexible work bid after she attempted to "call in" older medical documents and conceded she had not been diagnosed with the disability identified in her request.
