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A court has upped from $20,000 to $90,000 the general damages payout for a veteran chief accountant subjected to age discrimination and is considering billing his former employer a further $142,000 for economic loss, after hearing he is "no longer the same man" and is unable to work.
An employer has failed to establish that it genuinely made a software engineer redundant, in part because it should have offered her a lower-paying job available at a related entity in India.
The Albanese Government has appointed its secretary for public sector reform, Gordon de Brouwer, as the new Australian Public Service Commissioner, as the federal public sector prepares for a return to centralised bargaining.
The RBA is continuing to warn about the dangers of a wage-price spiral, saying the chances of it have declined, but could rise again if the FWC awards a "large" minimum rise this year or government employers ease or drop pay caps.
A NSW Greens candidate has won extra time to pursue an investment bank with a former Coalition IR Minister on its board, after it allegedly refused his parental leave application and retrenched him after he ran for local government and inquired about his rights.
A criminal lawyer with an "ostrich-like" attitude has failed to convince a judge to reconsider a default judgment ordering him to pay two former employees penalties, costs, long service leave and super totalling more than $70,000.
A judge has overcome his irritation at being asked to rule on an "arid debate" to find the now-defunct ABCC did not exceed its powers when it initiated its first case against the CFMMEU's maritime division over alleged death threats against workers attempting to cross a picket line.
In a decision closely examining when employees can be directed to perform extra duties, a FWC full bench has ruled that a maintenance worker could refuse to remotely monitor an automated gate at a gas supplier's facility.
The FWC has refused to throw out an allegedly out-of-time adverse action case, ruling a FIFO worker only learned he had been sacked when told he had been left off the list of passengers due to board a plane to the worksite.
