The FWC has dismissed s-xual harassment claims against two employees of an IR advisory service but allowed those against a director to continue, in the first decision to consider its new discretion to throw out allegations filed outside a two-year window.
A employee paid $362,500 to settle a common law claim after her s-xual assault and r-pe at work has won the all-clear to continue a related s-xual harassment and discrimination claim under equal opportunity legislation.
Workers who have been s-xually harassed are waiting years for their complaints to be heard because of a surge in cases and a failure by the Federal Government to increase funding to enable the Australian Human Rights Commission to deal with them promptly, according to the ETU.
The Federal Court has ordered a sacked senior HR manager to pay his former employer $45,000 in costs on a party-basis, after it rejected his AI-infected, meritless, "doomed to fail" bid for a judicial review of two FWC rulings.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a senior academic sacked for s-xual harassment, noting that while his "creepy" conduct breached the university's Appropriate Workplace Behaviour policy, he had apologised to the employee and had no further contact with her after HR intervened three years before his dismissal.
The FWC has declined to get involved in the potential sacking of a law professor accused of kissing a student on an "immersion" trip to Paris, despite finding flaws in the disciplinary process.
A franchisor chief executive found in June to have engaged in "predatory and grooming" conduct towards a female employee 40 years his junior has now been ordered to pay her more than $72,000 in damages.
A senior FWC member has upheld the sacking of a prison guard for propositioning a colleague, but not before describing his multinational employer's investigation of the matter as "woeful".
Property advisory business Savills has failed to persuade the Federal Court to throw out all of a senior employee's claims of discrimination, victimisation and "extreme and repetitive" s-xual harassment by a managing director.
