After five decades, the Racial Discrimination Act is due for a review akin to the landmark Jenkins Sex Discrimination Act inquiry, according to a leading academic, while ACTU leader Sally McManus says unions are grappling with how to increase the racial diversity in their leadership.
The FWC has reinstated a dairy worker and translated its ruling into his Rohingya language to ensure he understands the concerns that led to his sacking, while also warning the employer it needs to better manage the challenges of a diverse workforce.
The judge credited with blowing the lid off the way compensation is assessed in workplace harassment and discrimination cases has retired after more than a quarter of a century on the bench.
TPG Telecom says it used a legal documents designer and best-practice inclusivity guidelines to create an engaging, accessible post-merger deal with "amazing" conditions, but the CEPU's communications division says it delivers a pay cut and unfairly shifts the goalposts on penalty rates.
To address Indigenous Australians' under-representation in the workforce, employers need to create employment targets and inclusive leave policies and recognise workers' diverse needs, according to a new report.
The head of Victoria's Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission has urged all employers to heed the insights gained from the agency's year-long review of the State's ambulance service, which confirmed a workplace culture of "everyday" disrespect and sexism and recommends establishing an internal 'equality and reform' team.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has recommended an independent body be established to enforce parliamentary codes of conduct after a third of staffers responding to its workplace review reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment.
As artificial intelligence-based systems for recruitment and selection of employees have moved from the "periphery" to "centre stage" in the past decade, their largely unregulated and poorly understood use has given rise to transparency issues and discrimination risks, according to a leading IR academic.
A UK employment tribunal will consider whether an international think tank discriminated against a visiting fellow because of her "gender critical" views, including that trans women are male, after an appeal bench found she held protected beliefs.
