New South Wales' new Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has appointed former finance minister Dominic Perrottet as her IR Minister, while Mark Speakman replaces Gabrielle Upton as Attorney-General.
A decorated senior special constable engaged in extremely serious misconduct in the workplace when he boasted about his s-xual conquests, performed lewd acts with bananas, pretended to "dry hump" a colleague and referred to his p-nis piercings, a tribunal has found.
A tribunal has ordered an employer to allow the CFMEU entry to a major freeway construction site to investigate suspected breaches of OHS laws amid claims of threats directed towards its "stressed and anxious" members.
The "unusual" involvement of a company's most senior HR personnel has contributed to a tribunal finding that it discriminated against an employee because she contracted tuberculosis.
The Salvation Army failed to follow its disciplinary processes before it suspended an employee because of flawed HR advice and inexperienced management rather than her alleged pathological gambling addiction, a tribunal has found.
A tribunal has ordered two male employees to resume standard business hours from next month after it upheld an employer's decision to boost operational efficiency by ending a long-standing flexible work arrangement that allowed them to leave early enough to pick up their children from school.
A company has failed to block a job candidate from pursuing a complaint that it discriminated against him when it refused to engage him because it perceived he had a borderline personality disorder.
Despite opposition from an employer, a tribunal has agreed to suppress the identity of a man who claims he is being sexually harassed, discriminated against and victimised in his male-dominated workplace because of his imputed homosexuality.
The NSW Teachers Federation says it is aiming for a quick turnaround in negotiations for a new public school teachers' award and hopes to have a new deal in place by the start of next year, but it is also flagging a potential fight over the state's public sector wages policy.
