ASX-listed gaming giant Tabcorp "blindsided" former chief executive Adam Rytenskild with allegations of making an "inappropriate and offensive comment" about the female leader of a gambling regulator and then forced him to resign, the FWC has found.
A FWC presidential has found himself "astounded" by advice from a worker's lawyers, who "appear to have advised or allowed her to engage in a very high stakes game" by presenting her employer with an ultimatum that threatened her employment and resulted in her dismissal.
In a bid to further reduce the gender pay gap, the Albanese Government has introduced a Bill that will require employers with 500 or more workers to set new gender equality targets, with their progress publicly available on the WGEA website and compliance required to be eligible for Government contracts.
A court has found an employer who was in a relationship with an employee s-xually harassed her when he extorted her into having unwanted intercourse, setting compensation at $25,000, while rejecting her claim he sacked her for falling pregnant.
Some 350 maintenance and sustainment workers at the Australian Submarine Corporation's Adelaide headquarters have succeeded in their year-long campaign for pay parity with their Western Australian colleagues, winning an upfront average increase of 18.5%.
A study into the use of generative AI tools in recruitment warns they might filter out qualified candidates based on race, social origin and disabilities and butt-up against anti-discrimination laws, but with "guardrails" could in fact address bias and boost transparency.
The FWC has declined to interfere with the ATO's decision to refuse a worker absent more than 248 days in a year access to unpaid personal leave, observing that its enterprise agreement did not provide an "unfettered" right to such time off.
The FWC has allowed a 79-day-late unfair dismissal application after accepting an aged care worker relied on the advice of an immigration lawyer to initially contest her sacking through two health regulators.
A federal court full bench has remitted a case for retrial after a judge facing impending retirement reproduced "significant" portions of a worker's submissions without attribution in an adverse action case and failed to "bring an independent mind" to his determination.
The ASU claims employers seeking to vary the SCHADSÂ award sleepover allowance in a hearing starting today are attempting to make it lawful for community and disability support workers to be at work for up to 28 hours without overtime pay.
