The safest course for employers that want to improve their workplace gender diversity while complying with discrimination legislation is to obtain an exemption for their hiring practices, a lawyer says.
An employer's refusal to let an injured employee return to full-time duties, and its subsequent response to her bullying and discrimination complaints, were reasonable actions, a commission has ruled.
An employee's direction to attend an independent medical exam will again be reviewed, after a commission found his employer didn't comply with its policy.
Workplace s-xual harassment legislation introduced to Parliament today will amend the Fair Work Act's anti-bullying jurisdiction so the Fair Work Commission can make 'stop s-xual harassment' orders.
Annualised salary arrangements are a key pain point for employers at the moment, but HR leaders can mitigate "inevitable" payroll mistakes using a back-to-basics approach, a lawyer says.
Sacking an employee without formal warning or a chance to respond was "no minor failing" on an employer's part, but the fact it "instructed, retrained, counselled and warned" him as issues arose made the dismissal fair.
An employee has failed to convince a tribunal that a conference call in which she tearfully spoke of her father's death led to her dismissal on the grounds of disability.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld as fair the dismissal of an employee who had a "cavalier" attitude to using a workplace account to fund her coffee habit.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
