The Law Council is urging employers in legal circles to use its revised model framework for stamping out s-xual harassment as a tool to review their practices, following "significant changes" and new obligations.
The FWC has ordered former IR Minister and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's alma mater Xavier College to pay a teacher $14,000 for his unfair dismissal, ruling it harsh because he had never held another job and his messy desk, late marking and poor interactions with his colleagues did not justify his axing after 21 years of service.
In a significant decision the ETU describes as "deeply troubling", the Federal Court has found full-time agreement-covered FIFO electricians working on a Fortescue mine project do not accrue paid leave during their monthly "rest and recreation" off-swing.
The Australian Tax Office has failed to win a transfer to the Federal Court of a deputy commissioner's adverse action claim against it and senior executives including its chief people officer, after his sacking for underperformance.
In a decision illustrating the challenges of conducting cases involving remote Indigenous employers, the FWC has awarded $18,000 to a sacked chief executive after failing to engage the respondent in proceedings despite 14 phone calls, numerous emails and five notices sent by express post.
In a shot in the arm for a paramedic transferred 350km away after an investigator found he bullied a female colleague, a full bench has ruled that bullying falls within a "spectrum of seriousness" and ordered the redetermination of whether he engaged in serious misconduct.
Long-serving CPSU Victoria secretary Karen Batt and her leadership team are facing their first challenge in more than two decades, as a rank-and-file team seeks to topple them in a ballot that opens next month.
A senior FWC member has praised a "removed" former CFMEU construction division leader for answering national secretary Zach Smith's call to come out of retirement to take up a training role, granting him a certificate allowing him to return to work.
The second-term Albanese Government has today delivered on a key election promise, asking the FWC's Annual Wage Review bench to grant an "economically sustainable" real increase in the minimum wage and award rates.
The FWC has found a cash-in-hand nanny an employee eligible to pursue an adverse action claim, finding that she did not have her own business and the parents of the children she cared for exerted a high degree of control over her work.
