A tribunal has found a Gold Coast resort vicariously liable for the s-xual harassment of a female worker and that its mishandling of her complaint contributed to a psychiatric injury.
The FWC has taken into account the extreme offensiveness in Chinese culture of an insult conveyed in Mandarin by one Chinese-speaking employee to another, in ruling a mining company was justified in sacking the perpetrator.
A youth detention centre facilities manager who was sacked for divulging confidential information to Melbourne radio station 3AW's Rumour File segment has won compensation after the Fair Work Commission found the Victorian government had not followed the misconduct clause in the state public service enterprise agreement.
The operator of a Victorian freight and road transport business has been fined more than 85% of the maximum penalty for underpaying a former truck driver and then engaging in "asset stripping" to avoid liability.
An award-winning architecture and design company had a valid reason to dismiss a senior designer who breached his employment contract when he attempted to solicit its clients via LinkedIn to help expand his own business, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Mock unfair dismissal video now available; Former A-G McClelland returns to Turner Freeman; Vale Charles Copeman; FWC issues enterprise instrument reminder; and Batt becomes longest serving Victorian public sector union leader.
The Federal Circuit Court has ruled that the Commonwealth Privacy Act is not a workplace law, in throwing out an adverse action claim by a prospective employee who refused to provide a copy of her passport and electronic signature as part of a pre-employment screening process for a permanent job.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has reversed a decision that a boilermaker was fairly dismissed for using an unsafe method to cut a steel plate, finding he was not given sufficient opportunity to respond to allegations about his conduct or to attend his employer's re-enactment of the incident.
The Victorian Supreme Court has taken into account an employer's inaction in awarding damages of almost $600,000 to an employee who developed a severe psychological condition from "sustained workplace bullying" by her at times violently moody manager.
The federal government's bill outlawing discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status is through parliament, including late amendments removing the usual religious organisation exemption for Commonwealth-funded aged care providers – but not when it comes to employment.
