After being ordered to pay $90k in damages for discriminating against a breastfeeding worker, an employer now must also introduce anti-discrimination training for its managers.
The Fair Work Commission has cleared an employee to pursue her unfair dismissal claim, rejecting it was a genuine redundancy decision that simply coincided with her planned parental leave.
Changes to a manager's work arrangements amounted to "reasonable give and take" in the employment relationship, and didn't force him to resign, the Fair Work Commission has found.
When an employee nearing the end of her parental leave was removed from her employer's systems and told current staffing levels were "sufficient", she was effectively dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found.
In calling out an employer for failing to consult an employee about her redundancy, the Fair Work Commission has stressed the importance of having "some form of 'keeping in touch' system" during parental leave.
Rejecting an employee's flexible work request based on a perception that he would be distracted by his child and not responsive enough to customers was not reasonable, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer has to pay $90k in damages, and it has six months to produce a policy on expressing milk at work, after a tribunal found it discriminated against a breastfeeding mother.
Employers are being urged to review their PPL policies, in the wake of a finding that an employee was entitled to take paid leave as a primary caregiver, months after he had accessed paid leave as the baby's "non-primary" carer.
After closing its gender pay gap and boosting the proportion of women in industrial and tech-related roles, Blackmores Group is keen to move the dial further on "belonging", its CPO says.
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.
