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A court has awarded more than $500,000 in penalties to an 80-year-old former pistol club manager paid for more than a decade just $250 a week, from which the employer deducted $100 as rent for the on-site mobile home she lived in with her disabled son.
The FWC has declined to extend time by 13 seconds for a prison guard sacked for failing to disclose his involvement in a s-xual harassment case that resulted in a young worker receiving $125,000 compensation.
Tutor's sacking over "s-x object" comment warranted; $16K compensation after "cursory" text message dismissal; "False hope" provided by AI; Expelled priest not an employee; and Bench upholds joint smoker's reinstatement.
The FWC has ordered an employer to withdraw its offer of a "customer service continuity payment" for employees working through protected industrial action.
Men in the finance sector are starting to take paid parental leave at similar or higher rates than women when employers offer gender-neutral schemes, according to a FSU report that calls for the scrapping of primary and secondary carer-based models.
The Federal Court has run out of patience with a litigious solicitor whose numerous cases include "scandalous" allegations about a law firm and a FWC member, effectively blocking him from pursuing any further claims, to safeguard the legal system's "finite resources".
DEWR expects the seven hot-desks it will provide for every 10 non-SES employees at its new Canberra HQ will prove sufficient given that only four out of 10 attend at the moment on average.
Victoria's Kourakis royal commission into the construction sector has appointed an acting assistant commissioner and already held closed hearings in order to gather confidential information, it revealed at its first official hearing today.
