A business owner who described himself to a new female employee as "touchy feely" and gave her uninvited kisses has been ordered by the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal to pay her $8600 compensation for sexual harassment.
Women with access to paid maternity leave tend to return to work after having a child more quickly than those with unpaid or no leave entitlement, a new study based on HILDA data has found.
Sex discrimination could explain 70% or more of the wage disadvantage female managers experience compared to their male counterparts, a new study based on HILDA data has revealed.
A tribunal has ordered Bunnings to pay more than $150,000 in damages and indemnity costs and condemned its "completely unreasonable" handling of a sexual harassment complaint by a worker, whose male supervisor persistently asked whether she was wearing any underwear.
Ikea will boost paid parental leave to 26 weeks and do away with lower rates of pay for younger employees under a new three-year enterprise agreement with the SDA.
In an interlocutory ruling, the Federal Court has reinstated two electricians who were dismissed after giving evidence against their employer in industrial law proceedings.
The Federal Government will lift the annual income threshold to $180,000 for tax-free grants of up to $1000 in shares, in what it says are the final changes to the new tax regime for employee share schemes announced in the May Budget.
An application by the LHMU for a protected action ballot has failed after the AIRC found the union was not genuinely trying to reach an agreement with the employer, because it was trying to "keep its options open" to vary an existing agreement containing prohibited content.
