Small and micro businesses must not only have sexual harassment policies to avoid liability for employees' misconduct, but they must take active steps to prevent harassment, a tribunal has ruled in finding against a HR and recruitment consultancy and ordering it to pay $5,000 in damages.
A sacked employee who lodged his unfair dismissal claim 147 days late has had it accepted, because various advisors appeared to have failed to tell him about the 21-day time limit.
PM warns wall to wall Labor will hand back IR to unions; Building Taskforce launches new prosecution; Queensland Government recovers record $8.5m for employees; LHMU seeks to cover Tasmanian prison workers; BCA says offshoring a positive development that won't cut Australian wages; New website for NSW IRC; and most bosses using ineffective "sink or swim" approach with workers, says report.
The Federal Court has imposed large penalties on the CFMEU and an organiser and delegate, after last month finding that they discriminated against a worker on a building site who refused to join the union.
The Disability Discrimination Act has been "relatively ineffective" in reducing discrimination in employment, the Productivity Commission has found in its review of the legislation.
A senior member of the AIRC has castigated the AWU for applying to terminate a series of greenfield agreements without telling the appropriate panel head or other relevant members that the CFMEU, in separate proceedings, was seeking to revoke the same agreements.
An employer that displayed in its meal room its company calendar featuring semi-naked women has been ordered to pay $2,000 in damages to a female employee, while investment bank JP Morgan's US operation will pay out $75m to settle a sexual discrimination case.
The CPSU has given the Victorian Government's State Trustees Ltd until tomorrow afternoon to resolve an enterprise bargaining impasse or they will begin protected action from next Monday.
Six former members of the Refugee Review Tribunal, who were given six days notice that they would not be reappointed, are unable to seek redress through the AIRC because they are technically not Commonwealth employees.
