Australian workplaces are failing to cope with the rise in racism since the Hamas October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and that nation's subsequent retaliation, with HR processes seen as "ineffective or biased", a new Human Rights Commission report has found.
The NSW IRC's significant increases ordered today will result in midwives and registered and enrolled nurses at the top of the pay scale becoming the best paid in Australia.
The Albanese Government should expand the existing positive duty to compel employers to prevent discrimination on the basis of s-xual orientation or gender identity, the Australian Human Rights Commission has recommended in a report released on the transgender day of visibility.
Employers have described today's FWC decision to abolish junior rates for 18 to 20-year-olds as "disappointing" and a "financial blow", as the tribunal conceded the likelihood of a negative effect on employment of workers as businesses adjust to increased labour costs.
FWC member and former ETU NSW branch secretary Bernie Riordan has thrown out a demand that he recuse himself from an anti-bullying case due to his alleged "connection" with a union leader named as a respondent, saying the tribunal would "grind to a halt" if it acceded to such requests.
A senior FWC member has rebuked an experienced Telstra worker for wasting the tribunal's time on a "spiteful" anti-bullying bid based on "pedantic" complaints about his manager.
A rope access technician has been ordered to pay $125,000 in costs after pursuing a failed underpayments and discrimination case described by the judge as "a textbook example of launching an action without reasonable cause".
The FWC's longest-serving member has provided a detailed exposition of the tribunal's approach to suppression orders, reinforcing that it is not merely about "public understanding" of her reasons for finding that an employer did not force an experienced HR manager to resign after less than five months in the job.
