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"Prolific litigator" owes employer $44,000 for "shake down": Tribunal

"Australia's unluckiest job applicant" has been ordered to pay a labour hire company indemnity costs of $44,000 for a "time-wasting" failed discrimination case, in which he sought $115,000 in compensation and refused an early $5000 settlement offer.



Court pares Qantas pilot's discrimination, harassment case

A female Qantas pilot suing the airline for alleged gender discrimination and s-xual harassment must re-plead her case after a court found her claim that the workplace was "hostile to women" to be "unsatisfactorily imprecise".

Alleged forced resignation discriminatory: Lobbyist

Scott Morrison's former policy director has been given extra time to pursue an adverse action case alleging discrimination against one of Australia's best-connected lobbying firms, which claims he resigned after it denied him a stake in the business.

Blank form a valid application: Tribunal

In a significant decision on what constitutes a valid application, the FWC has allowed a general protections claim to proceed despite the worker submitting a blank form.

$44K payout after reasonable adjustments failure

A heavy vehicle diesel mechanic who suffered a non-work-related wrist injury has won $44,000 in damages after his employer failed to offer reasonable adjustments and made "clumsy" and "ill-informed" attempts to re-engage him while awaiting "full clearance".

Stressed worker's resignation should have been questioned: FWC

One of the world's largest gold mining companies should have taken a worker's stress levels into account before accepting a resignation prompted by an allergic reaction to eating a cake's icing, the FWC has found.

"Innocuous" questions could be discriminatory: Tribunal

A UK tribunal has found that a job interviewer asked seven questions that could be "reasonable and entirely innocuous" individually, but cumulatively could constitute racial discrimination.