A bill introduced to Queensland's Parliament by IR Minister Grace Grace yesterday ushers in a new regime for workplace discrimination, and for the first time, provides protections against adverse action and bullying.
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A project delivery and maintenance contractor took adverse action against a former union official when it refused to employ him at a major project site because of his background as a unionist and concerns over his former "adversarial" views on the project, the Federal Court has found.
The Federal Court has cast doubt on whether there is a basis for ordering a company to pay penalties or compensation for adverse action against a worker, because it never acted on a recommendation to dismiss him for making a harassment claim that allegedly had shaky foundations.
A mineworker stood down by a Rio Tinto subsidiary after he won more than $600,000 in damages for serious injuries sustained at work has won an adverse action claim in the Federal Court.
The Opposition has given notice that it will introduce a Private Member's Bill that would trigger a crackdown on underpayments, sham contracting and exploitation of temporary visa workers.
Roy Morgan Research Ltd took adverse action against a director who sought to return to work after maternity leave when it refused her request for flexible working hours and instead brought forward her redundancy, the Federal Circuit Court has found.
A workplace ban on employees accessing leave to participate in a union-led rally on Monday has been overturned, on an interlocutory basis, by the Federal Circuit Court, after it accepted the ETU's argument that the move breached workers' general protections.
In its first ruling on the issue, the Fair Work Commission has decided that unions can include multiple employees in a single general protections application.