The Federal Magistrates Court has found a female employee was sexually harassed when a male co-worker asked for a bite of her banana and pushed a toolbox between her legs.
The AIRC has today given the ABC and MEAA seven days to come to an agreed position on how to proceed with an external inquiry into alleged bullying of an executive producer.
In another case dealing with whether Roy Morgan Research Centre (RMRC) interviewers are researchers or employees, the Supreme Court of Victoria has allowed the company's appeal against a VCAT finding that they were employees.
CEPU fails to quash official's unfair contract claim; Boeing workers to take more industrial action after stopwork today; AIRC failed to take into account dismissed worker's limited English language skills; and North American employers adopting aggressive "hire to hurt" strategies as labour market tightens.
The prospect of a future Labor Government seizing the opportunity to create an "anti-employer" national IR system is no reason to halt the Government's plans for a unitary system, because experience elsewhere shows any rollback would be modest, according to Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews.
A senior judicial member of the NSW IRC has confirmed that unions are free to decide how to spend any fine (or "moiety") they are paid when they successfully prosecute employers for OHS breaches.
A 16-year-old apprentice electrician who was deliberately burnt on the neck and arms by his supervisor and was repeatedly asked to perform oral sex and other sexual favours has been awarded $15,000 in damages for sexual harassment.
Correction to higher education story, and NTEU announces campaign against funding-linked IR changes; AEU membership also on the rise; Reject deal that pays $10,000 more to men than women, ASU to tell Queensland IRC; Queensland to introduce its first child employment laws; and Sunshine State reverses onus in freedom of association cases.
The Building Industry Taskforce has followed up Friday's $8,500 hit against the CFMEU (construction division) in WA by securing total penalties of $7,500 against the NSW branch this morning.
An IT manager summarily dismissed for failing to inform his employer about the widespread use of pirated software throughout its operations had no basis for a s106 unfair contract claim, the NSW IRC has ruled.
