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Fast independent news and analysis for IR/HR practitioners.$8K to worker sacked for getting "demonic" COVID-19 jab
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A Newcastle-based church unfairly summarily dismissed a worker when it took the view that no-one vaccinated against COVID-19 could work for it because it viewed the inoculation as "the world's largest ever untested medical experiment", and retrospectively applied the policy to the worker without warning.Workplace Express2024-03-25T07:12:40+11:00Angelic expectations might be unfair: FWC
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The FWC has found understaffing weighed heavily on the mind of a custody officer sacked by Ventia for headbutting a door in frustration at a prisoner on the other side, noting it might be "unfair to apply the standards expected of angels to mere humans".Workplace Express2024-03-18T15:38:42+11:00Give menopausal women right to flexible work: Union
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The FSU has told a Senate inquiry that employees suffering from perimenopause or menopausal symptoms should have a right to apply for flexible work, while Maurice Blackburn says an ability to work from home, access extra paid leave and take longer breaks greatly improves engagement.Workplace Express2024-03-18T07:26:16+11:00Blanket NDAs still the norm despite guidelines: Report
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Strict non-disclosure clauses remain the default option for s-xual harassment settlements, a year after the publication of Respect@Work Council guidelines for their use, according to a new report that nevertheless outlines model NDA terms.Workplace Express2024-03-07T07:43:02+11:00Payout for WFH worker forced back to office
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The FWC has awarded compensation to an accounts assistant who said she could not return to the office after working from home for almost a decade, while her employer maintained that the arrangement only began with the pandemic.Workplace Express2024-03-06T06:50:16+11:00Payout after ban on speaking to female co-workers
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The NSW Police Force has failed to knock out orders to compensate an officer who suffered a psychological injury after it transferred him and banned him from talking to female colleagues without supervision while it investigated s-xual harassment complaints.Workplace Express2024-03-05T10:47:00+11:00FWC freezes organiser's permit for three months
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The FWC has suspended the entry permit of the CFMEU construction division's sole Wollongong organiser over a "moderately serious" breach soon after the union engaged him five years ago, and which late last year earned him a $4000 fine.Workplace Express2024-03-04T07:02:27+11:00Police commissioner's vax mandate unlawful: Court
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Queensland's departing police commissioner failed to properly consider the human rights implications of two ultimately unlawful vaccination mandates issued at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Supreme Court review has found.Workplace Express2024-02-28T16:11:49+11:00WGEA names gender pay equity laggards
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The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has revealed a NDIS health service, the Energizer battery giant and an investment and logistics company have the largest median total remuneration gender pay gaps, while construction topped the list on an industry basis, under new laws requiring the agency to annually report the performance of companies with 100-plus employees.Workplace Express2024-02-27T00:10:00+11:00Tribunal refuses to delete, anonymise ex-wife's name
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The Queensland IRC has refused a bid by Together Queensland to anonymise or remove a worker's name from her ex-husband's unfair dismissal decision, which refers to her application for an order under the State Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act.Workplace Express2024-02-26T07:45:41+11:00Worker allegedly labelled "f-ggot" and "princess" fails to limit costs
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A worker who is accusing his employer of sacking him after he complained about his co-workers' alleged discriminatory behaviour - included calling him a "skippy poofter" and grabbing his genitalia - has failed to cap his potential maximum court costs at $30,000.Workplace Express2024-02-20T07:09:28+11:00Bill to ensure no criminal penalties for disconnect breaches: Burke
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Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has this morning introduced legislation to ensure that employers that flout right to disconnect "stop orders" cannot face criminal charges.Workplace Express2024-02-15T10:04:18+11:00DEWR's remote workers "wired into the matrix": James
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DEWR secretary Natalie James has defended her department's working from home arrangements and explained why they are different from the newly-passed laws giving employees a right to disconnect out of ordinary hours.Workplace Express2024-02-14T12:13:36+11:00Major harassment case targets supplier to Woolies, Coles
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A major fruit and vegetable grower defending one of the biggest workplace s-xual harassment and assault cases in Australia says it took "immediate steps" to remove the accused workers and it no longer employs them.Workplace Express2024-02-12T15:58:59+11:00Palmer ordered to pay $40,000 to worker ousted in mass sacking
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A Clive Palmer-owned business must pay a worker almost $40,000 for dismissing him by email along with 125 other employees, claiming he failed to work his hours amid site-wide fraud, theft and dishonesty,, and then asking him to re-apply for his job 20 minutes later.Workplace Express2024-02-09T08:29:28+11:00Procedural fairness failures make harassment sacking unfair
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A football club's "deficient" investigation and lack of procedural fairness rendered unfair its sacking of a worker for spreading "false and degrading s-xualised rumours" in the workplace, the FWC has found.Workplace Express2024-02-08T07:31:10+11:00Crossbench talks continuing ahead of Loopholes debate
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IR Minister Tony Burke says the Albanese Government is "not there yet" in talks with key crossbenchers ahead of this week's Senate debate on its Closing Loopholes No 2 legislation, while consultations on including a "right to disconnect" are tackling the role of fines.Workplace Express2024-02-05T11:56:53+11:00Domestic violence impacts explain delay: FWC
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The mental health effects of domestic violence justified a 28-day extension for a worker's unfair dismissal claim, the FWC has ruled.Workplace Express2024-02-02T06:55:36+11:00FWC seeking views on WFH, disconnect rights in awards
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The FWC is seeking feedback by March 12 on the possible incorporation into modern awards of key recommendations of the recent Senate work and care inquiry, including rights to work from home and to disconnect from the workplace.Workplace Express2024-01-30T15:52:33+11:00WFH stabilises after pandemic: ABS
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About 37% of workers are working regularly from home, down from 40% at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, but well above the pre-COVID-19 level of 32%, according to new ABS data.Workplace Express2023-12-13T12:18:25+11:00Wrong line: FWC roasts employer after cocaine sacking
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The FWC has reinstated a Sydney Trains worker who used cocaine while on leave, after lambasting the employer for not making it clear that it tests for use rather than impairment and for failing to take on board earlier criticism of its drug and alcohol policy.Workplace Express2023-12-06T06:41:56+11:00Court reserves on anti-sacking case against UWU
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A Federal Court judge has today reserved on an application to restrain the UWU from dismissing two organisers who claim it subjected them to adverse action for backing a majority support petition as part of a campaign for a new in-house enterprise agreement, but the union claims their case is "untenable" and should be thrown out.Workplace Express2023-12-05T13:58:21+11:00NTEU's Indigenous employment gains set union "benchmark"
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The NTEU has contributed to a doubling of Indigenous employment in tertiary education over the past two decades, by creating a "unique" union structure and using collective bargaining to establish employment targets and other Indigenous-specific provisions in enterprise agreements, an academic says.Workplace Express2023-12-05T10:57:11+11:00Pay discount upheld for drinking, smoking teacher
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A teacher who smoked and lifted a cask of wine above his head to drink from its tap during a video meeting to discuss online learning during a COVID-19 lockdown has failed to overturn a decision to dock his pay for a year.Workplace Express2023-12-05T06:21:13+11:00Chest infection a temporary disability: Court
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A court has ordered a cafe to pay a teenage worker $7300 compensation, including $6000 for hurt and humiliation, after it took unlawful adverse action because of his temporary disability when it dismissed him for calling in sick due to a chest infection.Workplace Express2023-12-04T06:48:01+11:00Personal fine for official who knocked manager's hat off
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A CFMMEU official who pushed a site manager and knocked his hard hat off has copped a $10,500 fine and orders to personally fork out 30%, while the repeat offender's latest transgression has cost the union more than $70,000.Workplace Express2023-11-29T15:21:39+11:00Sacked wharfie's explanation not blame-shifting: FWC
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Qube Ports must reinstate a stevedore who pranged a client's $70,000 Mercedes after an operations manager mistook her explanations as an attempt to excuse her behaviour or shift the blame.Workplace Express2023-11-29T06:24:34+11:00SDA seeking to kill off "new zombies"
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The SDA has pledged to stake out and help slay the "new zombie agreements" following a FWC decision to terminate Billabong's 2012 national deal at the conclusion of its peak trading period, while the union is also leaping into the crowded KFC class action space.Workplace Express2023-11-28T14:30:37+11:00Rise in female managers narrows pay disparity
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An increase in female managers helped shrink the average gender pay gap to 21.7% this year, down from 22.8%, according to the WGEA's latest gender equality scorecard.Workplace Express2023-11-28T13:33:40+11:00BHP changed housing regime to axe workers' tenancy rights: Bench
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A FWC full bench has upheld a ruling that BHP must continue to deduct a $60 weekly housing subsidy from remote mineworkers' pay, saying that the company halted the deductions to remove tenancy rights, rather than as an "act of gratuitous generosity".Workplace Express2023-11-23T14:33:04+11:00