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Employers need more hammers in their disciplinary toolbox: FWC

Published: 25 May 2017 1:54pm

The FWC has called on employers to introduce a greater range of disciplinary options like fines and unpaid suspensions into agreements to avoid "inappropriately lenient or inappropriately harsh" responses to misconduct that are problematic for all parties concerned.

Change in employment status ends bullying case

Published: 22 May 2017 4:05pm

The FWC has dismissed an anti-bullying claim brought by the chair of an Aboriginal land council because his recent failure to win re-election meant he was no longer a worker.

Harden up: Bench splits over phased return to work

Published: 19 May 2017 10:39am

An FWC full bench majority has thrown out a a company's challenge to a decision requiring it to reinstate an injured worker to his previous role and ensure he receives "work hardening".

Discrimination case turns on voiced concerns, not "state of mind": Bench

Published: 10 May 2017 5:11pm

As the Crown continues its pursuit of a Victorian employer charged with discriminating against employees who raised safety issues, Victoria's Court of Appeal has found that, as a question of law, it must prove only that the concerns were expressed rather than address the workers' "state of mind" at the time.

FWC bars disciplining or dismissal of "bullied" executive

Published: 07 April 2017 3:16pm

The FWC has issued an interim order to restrain an employer from disciplining an executive for alleged misconduct until the tribunal determines her anti-bullying application.

Comcare to pay $20,000 after revealing cancer sufferer's identity online

Published: 05 April 2017 1:42pm

Comcare has been ordered to pay $20,000 to a cancer-afflicted Defence employee whose privacy it breached after failing to properly protect her identity in a redacted report published online.

$1000 hit for refusing service to union member

Published: 04 April 2017 4:50pm

A tribunal has awarded an actor and MEAA member $1,000 compensation for discrimination by a cinema that refused to sell her a movie ticket because she belonged to the union.

Court rebuffs casual moved from A team to B team

Published: 31 March 2017 3:17pm

A court has rejected a casual's claim that his employer took adverse action when it stopped offering him shifts after he refused a six-week contract to allegedly meet his family and caring responsibilities, finding he knocked the work back to go on a pre-booked holiday to Fiji.

BHP did not discriminate against promotion-seeking unionist: Tribunal

Published: 29 March 2017 12:17pm

A tribunal has rejected a BHP Coal dragline operator's claims that his CFMEU connections cost him a promotion.

EU workplace headscarf ruling – could it happen in Australia?

Published: 24 March 2017 11:49am

A European Union discrimination ruling on an employer's decision to outlaw wearing Islamic headscarves at work highlights vast differences between it and Australia's social and legal context, according to Monash University senior lecturer Dominique Allen.

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