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The FWC has rejected an employee's claims that St Vincent de Paul Society NSW sacked him for a prohibited reason after he lodged bullying complaints, but has criticised the employer's HR practices.

A tribunal has criticised Football Federation Australia's refusal of financial assistance to a Matildas soccer player to care for her 11-month-old during a US tour, describing it as "mean spirited" and "inflexible", but found it had acted lawfully because the legislation "does not provide a remedy for all forms of discrimination".

The Victorian Auditor-General's damning audit report on the state health sector's response to bullying and harassment has found its agencies lack even the "fundamental, underpinning foundations of effective policies and procedures" to tackle the issue.

Proceedings brought by FSU national secretary Fiona Jordan against her union have returned to the Fair Work Commission, as an internal power struggle continues.

The Victorian Government has accepted recommendations to seek to shift the destructive "us and them" workplace culture in its metropolitan firefighting service to one based on "trust and respect".

A veteran Qantas flight attendant who won her job back in 2014 after winning an unfair dismissal case is back in the FWC, with the airline this week failing to block the tribunal from hearing her anti-bullying application.

The FWC has ordered Toll Holdings Ltd to reinstate a worker it sacked for making inappropriate comments about Islam and the Taliban to an Afghani colleague.

A tribunal has rejected claims that the sacking of two striking bus drivers constituted discrimination on the basis of their union activity, finding the law doesn't extend to unprotected action.

The FWC has upheld the dismissal of an employee for a relentless six-week email campaign in which he made a "deliberate and concerted effort" to discredit IR and ER employees after his demotion for "racial bullying" of an Indian-origin colleague he claimed was "smelly".

A manager who failed to comply with a tribunal's $180,000 costs order must pay security of $25,000 before the Federal Circuit Court can hear her disability discrimination claim against her former "employer of choice".