Property advisory business Savills has failed to persuade the Federal Court to throw out all of a senior employee's claims of discrimination, victimisation and "extreme and repetitive" s-xual harassment by a managing director.
A gender equality commissioner has called for Victorian public sector departments to take "urgent action" to tackle s-xual harassment, after a new report found that rates have stubbornly remained the same over the last five years.
The Human Rights Commission is holding six formal inquiries into employers' conduct to examine whether they are complying with the positive duty to eliminate s-xual harassment and is monitoring another 18, while it has received 143 complaints of positive duty breaches since December 2023, according to the s-x discrimination commissioner.
Large employers are set to gain an extra 12 months to bed down new "genuine and measurable" gender equality targets before they have to identify fresh ones and start the next three-year reporting cycle.
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.
A FWC expert panel is inviting parties to the SCHADS award gender undervaluation case to tell it at a hearing tomorrow what they think of a possible new classification structure thrashed out in a series of conferences, as an alternative to the panel's provisionally-floated model, and to weigh in on multiple issues in dispute.
The gender pay gap has narrowed by 0.7 percentage points to 21.1% over the past 12 months, driven by a larger increase in women's average base salary (up $3,419 or 4%) than achieved by men ($2,895 or 2.8%), the annual WGEA Gender Equality Scorecard reveals.
A FAAA bid to overhaul flight attendants' modern award based on gender-based undervaluation and changes to the nature of their work over the past two decades is seeking to boost pay rates by up to 62%, to a level beyond what some are paid under their agreements.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has asked parties to the SCHADS award gender undervaluation case to consider participating in an ASU-proposed conference to resolve outstanding issues, saying that if it proceeds, he will give any consensus deal arising from it "significant weight".
The ASU will forge ahead with nationwide protests tomorrow despite the Australian Industry Group's accusations that it is engaging in unlawful retaliation and intimidation, ahead of a hearing of the SCHADS award gender undervaluation case on Monday.
