The Federal Magistrates Court has found a female employee was sexually harassed when a male co-worker asked for a bite of her banana and pushed a toolbox between her legs.
The AIRC has today given the ABC and MEAA seven days to come to an agreed position on how to proceed with an external inquiry into alleged bullying of an executive producer.
A 16-year-old apprentice electrician who was deliberately burnt on the neck and arms by his supervisor and was repeatedly asked to perform oral sex and other sexual favours has been awarded $15,000 in damages for sexual harassment.
An IT manager summarily dismissed for failing to inform his employer about the widespread use of pirated software throughout its operations had no basis for a s106 unfair contract claim, the NSW IRC has ruled.
Unions at Toyota have won four years of shelter from the Howard Government's looming second wave of IR change, after striking an in-principle deal that provides an 18% pay rise, plus extra employer superannuation contributions and up to 3% in bonuses.
A Queensland IRC full bench will next week begin considering whether a large attraction and retention payment to a power company’s predominantly male technical workforce - while clerical workers get a lower increase – contravenes the State's gender pay equity principles and renders the deal ineligible for certification.
Both employers and unions are claiming victory in today's WA redundancy test case decision, after the State IRC doubled the maximum severance payout to 16 weeks and ordered that it apply to all WA award and non-award employees, but refused to extend severance entitlements to small business employees.
Australia's federal unfair dismissal laws might be 11 years old, but their constitutionality could become an issue if the ALP states decide to square up to the Federal Government on IR, according to a Sydney barrister.
