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Unreasonable to stymie reporting of safety issues: FWC

The FWC has thrown out a gym attendant's bid for anti-bullying orders, but not before giving his former employer Spotless some advice on how to better respond to complaints and not "overstep" the mark when restricting the reporting of safety concerns.

Call for guidance on equality targets for big employers

A Senate inquiry is calling for guidance on what will qualify as a "reasonable excuse" for failing to comply with a Bill requiring employers with 500 or more workers to set new publicly-tracked gender equality targets that could determine eligibility for government contracts, while the Greens want to lower the threshold to 100 or more employees.

Court to hear diabetic's challenge to safety sacking

A court has ordered Airservices Australia to reinstate a would-be firefighter who claims it discriminated him against him because of his type 1 diabetes.

Extension granted for potentially "unprecedented" case

A FWC full bench has overturned the rejection of a late adverse action application in which a worker claims symptoms caused by Parkinson's disease "perfectly matched" the performance reasons given for his sacking.

DEWR managers did not bully "exceptionally difficult" lawyer

A lawyer who failed to follow "the most basic of instructions" during FWC proceedings and proved to be "exceptionally difficult to deal with", experienced reasonable management action rather than bullying when DEWR raised issues about his tardiness, falling asleep in meetings and delays in producing work.

Qantas worker capable of signing settlement: Full court

A full Federal Court has refused to overturn a finding that a former Qantas employee possessed the necessary mental capacity when she signed a deed in 2008 settling her claims of s-x and disability discrimination.

No grounds for sin-binning "gaslighting" lawyer: Court

A court has found no basis for sidelining a lawyer accused of gaslighting a former Workpac employee who claims she lost her placement at Rio Tinto for reporting a colleague's s-xual assault, when her duties involved addressing findings from a s-xual harassment inquiry and a report by former S-x Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick.

BHP, Rio targeted in discrimination class actions

BHP and Rio Tinto are facing class actions accusing them of failing to protect women who worked for them and their contractors against sexual assault, discrimination and harassment over the past 20 years.

Parliament passes Bill tying childcare pay rises to funding

The Albanese Government's legislation to link its funding for the 15% work value pay rise for early childhood educators to limits on childcare operator fee increases, to ensure the funding is reflected in workers' wages, has passed parliament.

Deputy PM's staffer loses patience after 200 days

Deputy PM Richard Marles' chief of staff today called for changes to practices used by the new Parliamentary Workplace Support Service, as she launched an adverse action claim against him and the PM's chief of staff over alleged bullying and victimisation within her workplace.

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