The Fair Work Commission has rejected a long-serving employee's bullying claim, after accepting that her employer took reasonable management action when it performance-managed her after she resisted changes to workplace practices.
Many IR practitioners, including tribunal members and judicial officers, seem to believe that "discrimination is not really a matter for workplace relations law" despite the fact that 80% of discrimination claims arise on the job, new research is showing.
The FWC has granted the Commonwealth Bank legal representation to help it defend a bullying claim, after the employee who lodged the complaint didn't raise any opposition.
ACTU executive member Linda White has told ACTU Congress delegates that it is no longer good enough for union leadership to be dominated by the “grey beards” sharing the stage with her.
The ACTU’s Congress has today called for women to receive an extra 2% employer superannuation contribution to make up for their lower retirement balances in comparison to men.
The FWC has declined to make an order against a radiology company found to have bullied an employee, saying its recent "careful attention to procedural fairness" made it unlikely its conduct would continue.
A tribunal has granted a start-up recruitment company permission to put forward women-only candidates for placement in senior management and executive roles.
The FSU's national executive "intervened" to stymie national secretary Fiona Jordan's plan to engage an external investigator to examine a senior industrial officer's bullying complaint against assistant national secretary Geoff Derrick, a FWC decision has revealed.
