The FWC has endorsed the consultation process Woolworths used before it rolled-out a group-wide COVID-19 vaccination policy, rejecting a "most unusual" unfair dismissal case in which a worker's social media sprays clashed with his claims that the company left him in the dark.
A UK tribunal has awarded a Vodafone franchise worker $54,000 (£30,000) compensation after her managers asked her to explain how lesbians have s-x and then failed to fully investigate her discrimination claims.
The employer body for the economically-powerful resource sector has signed off on a multi-million dollar campaign against the Albanese Labor Government's IR legislation, starting next week with television, radio and print advertising.
The Federal Court has refused an extension of almost three years for a former Cricket Tasmania receptionist to pursue allegations that former Australian test cricket captain Tim Paine and other Cricket Tasmania employees s-xually harassed her between 2015 and 2017.
The federal government body charged with reviewing contested public service promotions has blamed an artificial-intelligence recruitment process for a spike in overturned decisions.
RAFFWU secretary Josh Cullinan says the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill is an "Orwellian attack" worse than Work Choices that will reduce workers' ability to strike, tear the BOOT apart and diminish the voice of employees and employers while doing nothing for casuals or wages.
Queensland Parliament has passed wide-ranging amendments to the State's IR Act that include boosting sexual harassment protections and pay equity, setting minimum standards for independent "gig" drivers and riders and imposing penalties for unregistered unions that misrepresent their status.
S-x Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins has defended a proposed shift to "cost neutrality" in s-xual harassment cases, where there is a default position for the parties to pay their own legal costs.
A lawyer's failure to act with the "level of diligence and expertise required of a competent practitioner" caused a four-day delay in filing his client's unfair dismissal claim rather than the attack of gastroenteritis that ran through his family, the FWC has held.
