A court has accepted that a transport company made an ill employee's position redundant as part of a genuine restructure, but found it took unlawful adverse action when it detrimentally altered her position because of her mental condition.
The Heydon Royal Commission will consider the allegations made against former HSU leader Kathy Jackson later this year, once the Federal Court rules in civil proceedings brought by her former union.
A national survey by the Human Rights Commission has found that a third of older job hunters abandoned their efforts after they experienced age discrimination.
The AMWU has fought off another challenge to its representation of workers at a high-tech respiratory equipment manufacturer, after the Federal Court upheld the Fair Work Commission's power to issue a majority support determination.
The NSW Court of Appeal has unanimously found that terms of mutual trust and confidence or good faith were not implied into two teachers' probationary employment contracts.
GM Holden is encouraging workers at its Elizabeth assembly plant in Adelaide to register their interest in taking an uncapped redundancy payout of 3.5 weeks pay for each year of service as it seeks to cut up to 270 jobs by the end of next month.
A management consultancy has established that it sacked a senior employee for her role in bullying her colleagues and creating a "toxic" work environment, and didn't take unlawful adverse action because she lodged a workers compensation claim, a court has ruled.
The Heydon Royal Commission will investigate the interaction between union leaders and the ALP, as its inquiries take a more political turn in its second year.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has acceded, despite opposition from employees and the RTBU, to a bid by Australia's largest rail freight operator, Aurizon, to terminate a dozen enterprise agreements that have nominally expired.
A senior public servant has lost his challenge to a Fair Work Commission finding that his department was performance-managing rather than bullying him.
