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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".

Lawyer highlights risks, opportunities at AI-IR interface

With employers said to be using artificial intelligence for everything from recruitment and rostering to forecasting industrial action, an employment lawyer is urging IR practitioners to consider the legal, ethical and practical issues.

"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.

$380K for nurse who challenged race favouritism

An aged care home has been ordered to pay almost $400,000 in damages and penalties to a Chinese nurse summarily sacked after she complained that Filipino co-workers received more favorable treatment.

Watt backing union concerns about SCHADS rates

Workplace Relations Minister Senator Murray Watt will weigh into a gender undervaluation award review case to make it clear the wages of affected workers must not go backwards, after the ASU warned proposed changes to the community and disability sector award might leave some workers up to $700 a week worse off.

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