An employer has been warned to do more to meet its positive duty to prevent s-xual harassment, after the Fair Work Commission found an employee's inappropriate behaviour went "unchecked" for years.
The Federal Government has introduced a bill to establish a "new specialist parliamentary human resources agency", to better deal with workplace misconduct.
An employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that he didn't deserve to be dismissed because his numerous Facebook friend requests and unsolicited messages to a young female colleague were actually from his seven-year-old son.
Employers are often frustrated when employees fail to raise concerns about a risk before disaster strikes, but it's often the case that the problem is less about their people, than their leadership.
A self-proclaimed "touchy-feely" worker has failed to prove an investigation into her alleged inappropriate workplace behaviour was "fatally" damaged by irrelevant evidence.
An ER manager and four other employees accused of sexually harassing and/or discriminating against a doctor have avoided being joined into his claim against his employer.
An employer has failed to prove it took reasonable disciplinary action against an employee facing sexual harassment allegations, and that it wasn't liable for his resulting psychological injury.
An employee's comments to a colleague "under the guise of humour" went "far beyond simply swearing" and amounted to s-xual harassment, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A senior employee, who said he struggled to recognise the line between friendships and intimate relationships because he was autistic, has failed to prove he was unfairly sacked for s-xual harassment.
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