A company's parental leave policy – which breached the NES by making unpaid parental leave only available to "primary" caregivers - has cost it $170,000 in the unpaid wages and redundancy pay that an employee would have received if he had been allowed to access the leave and its flow-on benefits.
The High Court will rule on Wednesday on the CFMEU's argument that Boral can't use court discovery processes to force the union to produce documents that might expose it to punishment for contempt for allegedly defying injunctions on Victoria's Regional Rail project.
A full Federal Court has upheld an order that required an aged care provider to pay a former employee the annual leave she accrued while she was absent from the workplace on workers' compensation.
A FWC full bench has today acceded to employer requests to change annual leave provisions in modern awards to enable cashing-out of up to two weeks a year and give employers a qualified power to require employees to take "excessive" accruals.
A Telstra sales consultant who has been awarded $10,000 in damages for being discriminated against while pregnant will be challenging the merits of the original ruling in the Victorian Supreme Court.
A postal worker who engaged in "frightening and foul mouthed outbursts", including telling co-workers he would bring a samurai sword to work to attack colleagues rather than a gun, was unlikely to succeed with his unfair dismissal claim, the FWC has found.
The FWC has decided against referring a bullying matter to an OHS regulator, after the complainant failed to establish he was at risk of continued bullying because he had left the workplace.
A former university academic who unsuccessfully claimed she had been sexually harassed by two colleagues has been ordered to pay a $900,000 indemnity costs bill after the Federal Court found she rejected a "generous" settlement offer despite legal advice that she was unlikely to succeed.
Workers need to be protected from employers that argue they took action against an employee because of the impact of the person exercising a workplace right rather than the actual exercise of the right, a judge has ruled in a dissenting judgment.
A senior employment lawyer found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct for accusing an opposing lawyer of lying and dishonesty has won a re-hearing of his case, after a Victorian Supreme Court ruling.
