The Federal Government is introducing criminal sanctions and higher penalties for underpaying and exploiting workers, among a raft of changes announced today.
An employer should have managed its chief financial officer's poor performance before making his role redundant, a tribunal has ruled in awarding him compensation for a panic disorder.
An employee who posed for a photo while skylarking at work and then posted it on Facebook has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission he was unfairly dismissed. Also in this article, flexible work and misconduct rulings; women are progressing into full-time management roles faster than men, but are still worse off financially; and more.
The Fair Work Commission will hear IR Minister Kelly O'Dwyer's bid to quash an enterprise agreement she claims is discriminatory, but has found granting her stay application would be detrimental to employees.
The Fair Work Commission has slammed an employee's attempts to portray an HR manager as a 'puppet master' who would go to any lengths to ensure his dismissal.
A new report is urging employers not to let "superstar" employees get away with s-xual harassment. Also in this article, organisations are calling for stronger obligations to prevent harassment.
A tribunal has rejected an employee's claims that his former employer's HR department was sufficiently competent to run its defence in unfair dismissal proceedings, and allowed it to be legally represented.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected an employee's claim that he shouldn't have been dismissed for sending a photo of himself to a female colleague, after she specifically asked him not to.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
