An apprentice chef who began self-harming, binge drinking and having suicidal thoughts after being s--ually harassed by his male manager has been awarded $8,000 in damages for distress, humiliation and hurt feelings.
Sydney University Emeritus Professor of Labour Law Ron McCallum has today called for the Fair Work Act to be overhauled to curb sham contracting arrangements, at the ABCC shams inquiry's second roundtable meeting.
The National Retail Association has called on FWA's wage review panel to allow retail and fast food employers to deduct from any minimum wage rise the labour cost increases that flowed from award modernisation.
A company genuinely made redundant its human resources manager when it restructured its HR function and devolved responsibilities to a lower-paid HR coordinator and line managers, Fair Work Australia has found.
A company fined $43,000 by the Federal Court three years ago over a secret deal with the NUW has fended off a bid by a rival union to hold discussions in a lunch room or barbecue area that is away from management's gaze.
The NSW Court of Appeal has overturned a finding that a solicitor from specialist employment law firm Fisher Cartwright Berriman failed to inform a constructively dismissed employee of an offer made during settlement negotiations with his former employer.
Retailer Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd has admitted its treatment of pregnant employees breached the National Employment Standards, after an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Employers will have to report annually on "tangible" gender-based pay results rather than "good intentions" to a reinvigorated workplace equal opportunity agency if they want to tender for federal government work, the Minister for the Status of Women, Kate Ellis, announced today.
