The FWC has urged the operator of Melbourne's rail network to review its approach to s-xual harassment claims after a "troubling" finding that representatives from its HR department could not pinpoint who had carriage of a complaint and struggled to identify relevant policies and procedures.
A FWC full bench has held that a worker's inclusion of s-xual harassment allegations predating the commencement of new intervention powers did not justify dismissing her dispute application, allowing her to again pursue a certificate to take her claims to the Federal Court.
S-x Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody and Working Women's Centre chief Abbey Kendall have told an international conference that Australia needs national laws to stop non-disclosure deals silencing victim-survivors of workplace harassment and discrimination, as a campaign urges the Albanese Government to go further than Victoria's imminent regime.
A prospective migrant living in Egypt has won limited document discovery against an Australian charity running a refugee employment program, in a race bias complaint alleging there is "a stark disparity" between its placements for South Sudanese and other candidates.
The FWC should only dismiss an anti-bullying application at a preliminary stage if the absence of a future risk is clear, a FWC full bench has found in upholding the appeal of a worker on extended sick leave.
Victoria's imminent restrictions on non-disclosure agreements might help curb workplace s-xual harassment secrecy, but an expert says their ultimate success hinges on lawyers abandoning an "entrenched culture" around settlements.
Large employers are set to gain an extra 12 months to bed down new "genuine and measurable" gender equality targets before they have to identify fresh ones and start the next three-year reporting cycle.
A tribunal member has declined to recuse himself from a harassment case, rejecting claims that what he "may know" about what was possibly agreed in a conciliation conference could affect his impartiality.
