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No continued bullying risk after contract terminated: FWC

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.

Secret recordings lawful if solely to aid "recall": FWC

A worker's covert recordings of disciplinary meetings might have been lawful if he had only used them to "aid his recall", rather than submitting the audio and transcripts as evidence in his unfair dismissal case, the FWC has ruled.

FWC upholds sacking after assault in elevator

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.

Commissioner rejects race bias claims

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.

Academic's anti-woke crusade cut short by court

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".

"Bullied" worker failed to heed reasonable demands: FWC

The FWC has refused to separate an NBN engineer involved in a dispute over allegedly unpaid hours from a manager held to have bullied him, instead ordering mediation after finding his own behaviour and "pedantic" approach is contributing to his problems.

Public sector gender pay gap halved

The Federal public sector gender pay gap has more than halved in a year, falling from 13.5% to 6.4%, but employers could still improve on men's uptake of paid parental leave, according to a new WGEA report that includes individual agencies' remuneration disparities for the first time.

FWC directs employer to review bullying finding

In a shot in the arm for a paramedic transferred 350km away after an investigator found he bullied a female colleague, a full bench has ruled that bullying falls within a "spectrum of seriousness" and ordered the redetermination of whether he engaged in serious misconduct.

Legislation adds new hurdle for psych injury claims

Workers in NSW will need to secure a ruling from the State IRC that bullying or harassment has occurred before they seek compensation for a related psychological injury, under draft legislation that will also add gender equality as an object of state workplace laws.

No diminuendo for pianist's adverse action claim

In a judgment raising the possibility that State workplace protections could extend to independent contractors under the Fair Work Act, Federal Court Chief Justice Debra Mortimer has today dismissed Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's bid to strike out a freelance pianist's adverse action claim that it discriminated against him by cancelling a performance after he accused Israel of committing war crimes.

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