The NSW Police Service has today been found vicariously liable for a male employee sexual harassing a female colleague, because it failed to take the necessary steps to educate employees and managers.
An employer had a valid reason to sack an employee for downloading MP3 music files, but was wrong to deny him the chance to delete them from his PC and to take advantage of a one month moratorium to remove sexually explicit material, the AIRC has found.
An employee who claimed he was highly stressed and anguished because of alleged racial discrimination in his workplace has failed to argue that he was sufficiently incapacitated to require the appointment of a lawyer to represent him before NSW's Administrative Decisions Tribunal.
The ETU has secured a 36-hour week agreement with a second Victorian power distributor, AGL, and now also has shorter-hour deals with the bulk of the larger contractors in the sector, including the four majors - Skilled Engineering, Thiess, UAM and Electrix.
A leading employment lawyer has called for the replacement of the NSW IRC with a new enhanced tribunal dealing with all employment and industrial matters.
Victorian common rule decision to be handed down on Tuesday; Seven fails in bid for indemnity costs against MEAA, ACTU Member Connect; Offshoring to double in three years, says new report; and Potential power shift in Victorian police union following election.
Employers should be careful to avoid wrongly attributing disabilities to employees, after a court awarded $15,000 in damages to a worker whose employer erroneously believed he was depressed.
The 670 Mitsubishi workers facing retrenchment from the company's Lonsdale engine plant will begin voting in 10 days on the redundancy package negotiated by the AMWU.
With industrial action put on hold for a week, Toyota and the ETU and AMWU (metals division) are scheduling further meetings over the unions' push for a nine-day fortnight for the car manufacturer's maintenance workforce.
