A probationary employee who said he was going to be "the next Erin Brockovich" has failed to prove he was sacked for raising health and safety concerns, in the first such claim of its type.
An employee wasn't forced to resign by alleged discrimination, but rather she quit voluntarily because she felt "very aggrieved that she had not been promoted", the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee who admitted to "a habit of speaking at length" has failed to prove he was put on a PIP due to his race, rather than his difficulties with communication and collaboration.
An absent employee was understandably aggrieved by his employer putting an out-of-office message on his emails stating he was on "mental health leave", however this didn't amount to discrimination, a tribunal has ruled.
An employer discriminated against a pregnant employee when it failed to extend her temporary fixed-term contract, after planning future work for her to do, a commission has ruled.
Withdrawing a job offer after the candidate disclosed a criminal record was "devastating" for her, but ultimately not unlawful discrimination, a tribunal has ruled.
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An employer's decision not to offer an employee a new fixed-term contract after she disclosed she was pregnant did not amount to discrimination, a tribunal has found.
Employers might expect to see the Australian Human Rights Commission exercising its new compliance powers later this year, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody tells HR Daily.
"Naming and shaming" employers that breach the positive duty to prevent workplace s-xual harassment is an option for the AHRC, but its primary goal is collaboration, according to S-x Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody.
