The AIRC has upheld the dismissal of a male Foxtel call centre team leader who sent what was intended to be a humorous reply to another male team leader's sexual fantasy email about a female employee.
The AMMA has written to Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews seeking exemption from prosecution for companies that fail to comply with Work Choices' onerous record keeping obligation but are clearly not underpaying their workers.
The NSW IRC has wide discretion to make conditional reinstatement orders, even to the point of requiring an employee to abstain from alcohol during and after working hours and submit to a rigorous drug testing regime, a full bench has ruled.
Using Pacific Islanders as guest workers in Australia would have negligible impact on the Pacific region, but could have high economic and social costs at home, a Centre for Independent Studies paper maintains.
An employer facing two unfair dismissal claims has failed to make out a "genuine operational reasons" argument, with the AIRC holding that "a mere assertion" that a termination is for operational reasons "is not sufficient".
A pregnant woman who lost her job-share position as a registrar at a Queensland private school after management decided the arrangement wasn't working and made the job full-time again has won a $47,250 payout.
The NSW Ambulance Service breached the federal Disability Discrimination Act by refusing to allow a diabetic to become a trainee ambulance officer, the Federal Magistrates Court has found.
One in every two Work Choices termination of employment applications claims that the worker was dismissed for unlawful discriminatory reasons, according to the AIRC's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice.
