The Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal has awarded substantial compensation to a woman who suffered serious depression after being told she must convert to Catholicism or lose her position as the head of a local St Vincent De Paul Society group.
A call centre company's efforts to find new jobs for 56 redundant employees did not mean it could avoid paying them severance pay, the Federal Court has found.
A former employee with a global HR consultancy has relied on comments made by a manager years earlier in pre-employment negotiations to win her claim for a $100,000-plus severance payout.
The NSW IRC has reinstated a truck driver, after major transport company Linfox Pty Ltd failed to establish that he breached its “three strikes and you're out" policy when he allegedly crashed his rig five times over a three-year period.
A Customs officer was entitled to claim a tax deduction for legal expenses incurred to defend disciplinary charges, the High Court has found today, in a judgment that raises the prospect of employees claiming deductions for the legal costs of a range of actions connected with keeping their jobs.
New Zealand's National Party - which has today made a deal to govern with the support of the ACT party following Saturday's election victory - has promised to introduce an optional three-month probation period for employees of small businesses and to allow cashing out of one week of annual leave.
A stationery company that unlawfully sacked its NUW delegate after a bitter strike at the height of pre-election debate over Work Choices has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $12,000 in penalties and $1800 in compensation.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has recommended extending employers' obligations to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace to protect workers from customers and clients, after its latest five-year survey indicated a significant reduction in sexual harassment on the job.
The AIRC has found a company was justified in dismissing an employee after discovering she had received confidential information from a co-worker on employee performance and restructuring plans.
An employer unlawfully discriminated against a female employee when it extended her probation period from three months to six months after learning she was pregnant, a tribunal has found.
