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.
NTEU members have voted to escalate industrial action, including another state-wide strike, if Victorian universities maintain their refusal to of union demands to replace most casual jobs with permanent positions.
The SDA is gearing up to take further action against McDonald's fast food outlets after a settlement in which a franchisee coughed up $275,000 and confessed to waging a union-busting campaign and pressuring part-timers to become casuals, despite denying it in court documents.
A former chef at a major catering company has appeared before FWC President Adam Hatcher seeking an equal remuneration order, in a case that could test workers' ability to seek retrospective redress from a pay equity expert panel once they have left an employer.
The Albanese Government's proposed model for national labour hire regulation exposes host employers and labour suppliers to criminal penalties if they "knowingly or recklessly" flout the scheme's rules.
Victoria's appeal court has upheld a ruling that an employer treated a manager unfavourably because of her s-x, when it ignored her repeated attempts to negotiate over-agreement pay rates, despite affording higher rates to male colleagues.
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.
Employer organisations have generally welcomed the Albanese Government's plan to require businesses to pay superannuation on paydays rather than quarterly from 2026, but the small business lobby is seeking lower costs and possible exemptions.
