The former acting principal of a Sydney Islamic school has won a court order fixing costs at $40,000 as she pursues its leadership for allegedly subjecting her to s-x, racial and pregnancy discrimination, including by telling her she should stay home and look after her children.
An employer has won a rare costs order against an experienced paid agent after the FWC agreed that he should "never" have run a pregnancy discrimination case given there was no evidence the on-hire worker was ever dismissed.
An employer did not discriminate against a lawyer when it twice declined to roll over short, fixed-term contracts that would have entitled her to paid maternity leave, an appeal panel has found.
The Law Reform Commission has recommended legal changes to substantially narrow the circumstances in which religious educational institutions can discriminate against their workers.
Employment rights legal centre JobWatch says a client survey suggests most employers are failing to take internal complaints of workplace sexual harassment and discrimination seriously or to adequately protect employees, prompting recommendations to expand positive duty and vicarious liability provisions, and actively monitor compliance.
In what is believed to be the first workplace breastfeeding discrimination ruling, a tribunal has found that a KFC franchisee indirectly discriminated against a worker when it told her to express milk in a tent, within a storeroom with no door.
The UK's Sunak Government has introduced 12 weeks paid leave for parents with babies in neonatal care, as an additional entitlement on top of paid parental leave.
Three-quarters of working women are suffering from painful periods, according to a continuing survey conducted by Maurice Blackburn that it is seeking to open up to a broader audience, as it prepares to use the data to lobby for reproductive leave and flexible work arrangements.
A federal government official has told the Senate inquiry into the Albanese Government's plan to boost paid parental leave by six weeks that the Women's Economic Equality Taskforce recommendations on the "use it or lose it" provisions will inform the second phase of reforms that take effect in July next year.
An employer did not force the resignation of an experienced HR manager suffering a difficult pregnancy when it refused to grant her a year's parental leave, a court has found.
