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Discrimination briefs, May 9, 2005

VCAT says manager didn't discriminate when he said liked women lighter than 50kg; $45,000 payout to employee one of 179 sex discrimination settlements during 2003-04, says HREOC; and Goward to address age discrimination seminar next Monday.

News in brief, May 9, 2005

Industrial Registrar goes public to correct the record; ABC appeals Barakat ruling; Della positive about prospects of High Court challenge; Telework inquiry submissions close May 27; NSW TAFE teachers to rally in August against plans to link AWAs with funding.

AIRC approves deal that takes employer out of industry fund

The trustee of the Victoria Construction Industry Long Service Leave Fund (CoINVEST) has failed in its bid to win leave to appeal against the certification of a non-union agreement that takes the employer - and its employees - out of the sector's State long service leave scheme.

Sex work comments end in lesbian worker losing job, bias claim

Tasmania's Supreme Court has rejected a sex discrimination claim by a social worker who breached her employer's self-disclosure policy by insisting that she tell all clients upfront that she was a lesbian and a sex worker.


Building employers, union defend AIRC

Victorian construction industry employers and the CFMEU have defended the AIRC's involvement in the recent negotiations for a new deal for the sector, saying Vice President Iain Ross - who heads the Commission's construction panel - was "scrupulous" in his approach.

Restructuring won't escape reach of unfair contracts law: NSW Court of Appeal

The NSW Court of Appeal has rejected an attempt by companies within a restructured group to stop the NSW IRC dealing with an unfair contracts claim against them on the basis that they weren't formed or incorporated until after the former employee making the claim had left the group.