An employee who experienced "serious and repeated" sexual harassment at work has won an extra $129k in damages, after a court found the original $10k awarded was "inadequate in the extreme".
A director sexually harassed an employee when he slapped her on the bottom and twice declared his feelings for her, the Federal Court has found in ordering his employer to pay $268k in damages and compensation.
Employers' new obligations to proactively eliminate s-xual harassment and prevent psychosocial harm at work are set to have an impact on HR teams that shouldn't be underestimated, a workplace lawyer says.
Two related companies and a director, who sexually harassed multiple young employees, have been convicted and fined a total of $290k. Meanwhile the Federal Government is reportedly rolling back some casual reforms in the Closing Loopholes Bill.
An employer's "ad hoc" approach to a sexual harassment allegation and its subsequent investigation caused an employee's psychological injury and were not reasonable actions, a commission has found.
Senior leaders and HR managers in the Productivity Commission will undergo trauma-informed and victim-centred response training, after a review revealed a "permissive" workplace culture where allegations of s-xual harassment and s-xism are minimised and inadequately investigated.
Regardless of finding it "offensive" that the success of her s-xual harassment complaint hinged on her employment status, a former employee has been denied the stop-SH orders she sought.
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